From "unexpected" earnings results to missed market opportunities to product launch disasters, we've come to accept uncertainty as an unavoidable fact of business life. But Kenneth G. McGee argues that even the worst business surprises rarely happen without warning-and that a few vital pieces of information can make all the difference in whether an event spells disaster, or opportunity. In H…
Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant…
This book offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles you can use personally to transform the arenas in which you compete. The authors present simple but powerful ways t…
In November 1970, virtually the entire football team and all of the coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedmon, must find a coach, who then must find players. They pet…
Berlatar tahun 1944, Valiant (Ewan McGregor) adalah seekor merpati hutan yang ingin menjadi pahlawan besar suatu hari nanti. Ketika ia mendengar bahwa mereka sedang merekrut anggota untuk Royal Homing Pigeon Service, ia segera berangkat ke London. Di perjalanan, ia bertemu dengan seekor merpati yang bau, tetapi ramah bernama Bugsy (Ricky Gervais), yang bergabung dengannya, terutama untuk menghi…