On Strategy

1. How SWOT Wrecks Your Strategy.
2. How You Can Outsmart Multi Million Dollar Computer Models With Common Sense.
3. To Go Beyond Your Core Business - Or Not?
4. Exorcising Financial Demons from Your Strategy.
5. Thriving In Hard Times:  Focus On Your Opportunities, Not Your Problems.
6. Lessons from Those Who Predicted the Housing Bubble - and from Those Who Didn't.
7. The Opportunity Mirage:  How to Spot When A Rose Is Not A Rose.
8. Tom Watson's Secret.
9. Thriving In Hard Times # 2: Basic Questions We Forget to Ask.
10. How the Best Companies Create Sustained and Relentless Innovation.

11. If You Are 'Implementing' Your Strategy -- You Don't Have One.            Featured by The Marker, Israel's leading business magazine.

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STRATEGY WHITE PAPER:

"Spitting In the Wind: 

A Single Obvious Insight to Sharpen and Focus Your Strategy."

The CEO Thought-Provoker™ Teleconference Series:

"Yes They Have MBAs... but Can They Think?!

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"If You Are 'Implementing' Your Strategy - You Don't Have One!  

How to Control and Grow Your Business Successfully"

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On Management, Leadership and 

Personal Development

1. Own Worst Enemy: Wanting 'A' When You're Needing 'B'
2. Why Hard Work Is Smart Work and How to Work Hard Smart.
3.  Why One Client Is Hiring and Another Client Is Firing.
4. The Only Way to Create Loyal Employees.
5. One Smart Way to Move Ahead with Difficult Customers.
6. Quick Decisions:  A Sign of Good Leadership?
7. "I Wanted to Solve the Problems Before They Materialized."
8. The Only True Magic Formula for Business and Life. 
9. How to Quickly Spot What Is Really Going On.
10. Why A Seven Minute Meeting Took An Hour-and-A-Half.
11. How to Write A Job Description that Ensures High Performance.
12. Most CV's Are Terrible.  How to Make Yours Irresistible.
13. For Every Thousand Hacking at the Leaves of Poor Management, there Is One Striking at the Root.
14. How to Handle A Crisis.  (Don't Do What Imus Did.) 
15. What Gets Us Into Trouble... OR - Why Ask Why?
16. "We can't Fire Him!  He's the Only One Who..."
17. "Stop!  How Does What You Just Did Resemble My Advice?!"
18. The High Cost of Solving Problems. 
19. When Heads Must Roll.  When should we settle for systemic improvement and when must we hold people personally accountable?
20. How to Write Help-Wanted Ads that Attract Talent and Drive Everyone Else Away.  (Nicely.)
21. The Chief Tunnel-Visionary Officer.  

1. Stop Trying to Motivate and Do This Instead!      .PDF 

   עכשיו ניתן להורדה גם בעברית.

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The CEO Thought-Provoker™ Teleconference Series:

On Marketing & Sales

1. How to Make Your Products and Services Stand Out.  Part 1
2. How to Make Your Products and Services Stand Out. Part 2
   
3. Survey Sloth:  How Marketing Research Can Imperil Your Marketing.
4. The One Word that Gets Them Saying "Yes!" 

5. Orange Makes this Mistake.  Do You?    Featured by Globes, Israel's leading business newspaper.

6. Who Are You Talking To?  What business can learn from the failure of the anti-disengagement movement.  Featured by Globes, Israel's leading business newspaper. 

IV.  Short Thoughts On Doing Business With Humans.

1. No One Is As Perfect As They First Seem.

2. When Someone Sends You An Email...

V.  Great Links.

1. www.Answers.com   
This completely free tool is outstanding and must be tried to be believed.  Use it via the web or, even better, download their super-simple software.

Recommended reading on our new book page!

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