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Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt. The Economist 'Goldratt's system, in essence, forces production managers and workers alike to coordinate their work-with an underlying principle in mind: that 'bottlenecks'...are what ultimately constrain the manufacturing environment.'. Definitely a book to read...' The Hairdresser Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems, and acted as an educator to many of the world's corporations.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are employed in a business area, or interested in learning more about how to streamline company processes, this book is a great read."
"I have worked in oil and gas and manufacturing as an engineer and now manager for 20 years and I am finding this book is providing me insights on problems I am facing today."
"Between the fall of 2005 and the summer of 2011, I pursued a Master of Business Administration and Master of Systems Engineering back to back while working during the day."
"I had a really hard time finishing 11 CDs, I can not imagine what the book is like. From there, its hard to say which Chapters are the most valuable because he (Alex) does go back and forth about "The Goal" and the story of the book."
"TOC is a very beneficial way of finding constraints in your organization and work on a path of constant improvement .After listening to the successful implementation of TOC''s implementations in verious fields like hospitals , Automobiles etc I am convinced it can be the best tool for a manager and will be happy to be a part of its implementation or be the implamenter one day."
"or if you have a plant manager who is "always promoting some new thing he's doing, and most of the time what he's doing isn't any different from the things everyone else is doing", then you better read this book and make others to read it as well."
2 The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. Everyone knows that most new products fail and that building great products is hard. The Lean Product Playbook provides clear, step-by-step guidance to help you create successful products. Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Define your minimum viable product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit. It also describes how to build your product using Agile development and how to use analytics to optimize your product and business. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts, and anyone passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. "Dan takes Lean Startup to a new level with his step-by-step playbook for creating great products!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dan Olsen brings a great combination of theory and practical experience to the problem of product management. He's not trying to claim credit for making up a whole new theory; he supplies plenty of concepts of his own, but he's happy to include solid methodologies from other practitioners. The book would be a useful perspective for, say, CPG product managers, but its primary focus is certainly on software."
"Dan's approach utilizes a tactical / how to / real world focus that serves as a great "starter guide" to actually executing a product idea."
"READ this book if you want to learn or increase the required knowledge, skills, and experience of a great product manager."
"Dan's experience and his simple/clear outline have created a must read approach for any high-tech industry leader who wants to understand or lead Product Management practices in their organization."
"Being a Product Manager (non-technical) in a non tech domain (Insurance), I have found the book useful in relating my experiences to a more techie space."
"This is a well-organized and insightful read about the process behind creating lean products as well as how to apply the process."
"Great read for anybody working in Product Management."
"To book brings a lot of insights and real life examples which make it a real "playbook" that you can use with your own products or projects."
Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” a practical tool to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want. Value Proposition Design complements and perfectly integrates with the ”Business Model Canvas” from Business Model Generation, a tool embraced by startups and large corporations such as MasterCard, 3M, Coca Cola, GE, Fujitsu, LEGO, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more. The team behind “Value Proposition Design” is the same as for the global bestseller, Business Model Generation, composed of Dr. Alexander Osterwalder, Dr. Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and completed by Greg Bernarda,, and Trish Papadakos. Dr. Alexander Osterwalder and Alan Smith are co-founders of Strategyzer.com, a company specializing in tools to design, test, and manage strategies, business models and value propositions. Dr. Yves Pigneur is a professor of management and information systems at the University of Lausanne, Greg Bernarda is a consultant and certified Strategyzer coach specialized in strategy and innovation, Trish Papadakos is a renowned designer and photographer. Dr. Osterwalder invented the “Business Model Canvas,” the strategic management tool to design, test, build, and manage business models, which is used by companies like Coca Cola, GE, P&G, Mastercard, Ericsson, LEGO, or 3M. He helped create the Value Proposition Canvas with Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, and the breakthrough design for Business Model Generation.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Many people will in the future attribute success to canvas-thinking or blue ocean-thinking, which will create a hoard of followers. The book's format is encouraging a tendency to make things easy and simple. Check out The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas which is a deeper description of prototyping. The tools give a strong sense of security, when I would prefer people to be more humble and paranoid. Great idea, but we only get four pages devoted to the topic and 70% of that space is covered with very cute graphics. (I have exactly the same critique on this book 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization.). A lot of start-up technology companies have prototypes that are not well matched to the customers' requirements (and that goes for big firms like 3M too). Any high level executive that falls for the cute graphics in the book should be immediately fired."
"This book can help in multiple ways such as: presenting the value of your product to your customers, creating shared understanding of your product and it features, showing the benefits and value for meeting or exceeding the customers expectations, and more."
"To me the measure of a great business book is that as you read it you feel a mounting sense of excitement about an idea you read, and how it will be immediately applicable to your situation; this book has that - a lot."
"Great book for any practitioner for working hands-on about new business ideas within current and new ventures."
"Great information in this book."
"Wonderful execution of mechanistic analysis."
"A very good book, very useful for learning and evaluate a business."
"Great book."
Best Industrial Marketing
Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy , now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. Praise for Blue Ocean Strategy : A bestseller across 5 continents More than 3.6 million copies sold worldwide Translated into 44 languages A Wall Street Journal , BusinessWeek , and Fast Company bestseller Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book defines a way of thinking about business strategy."
"Best business book I've ever read!"
"this is the very best business book i have ever read."
"Bought this for my girlfriend and she has gotten so much useful information from this book."
"Excellent book, perfect advisor to understand how to rebuild and transform your business into a more competitive entity."
"Love the approach and have applied them quite often."
Best Lean Management
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Define your minimum viable product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit. It also describes how to build your product using Agile development and how to use analytics to optimize your product and business.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Dan Olsen brings a great combination of theory and practical experience to the problem of product management. He's not trying to claim credit for making up a whole new theory; he supplies plenty of concepts of his own, but he's happy to include solid methodologies from other practitioners. The book would be a useful perspective for, say, CPG product managers, but its primary focus is certainly on software."
"Dan's approach utilizes a tactical / how to / real world focus that serves as a great "starter guide" to actually executing a product idea."
"READ this book if you want to learn or increase the required knowledge, skills, and experience of a great product manager."
"Dan's experience and his simple/clear outline have created a must read approach for any high-tech industry leader who wants to understand or lead Product Management practices in their organization."
"Being a Product Manager (non-technical) in a non tech domain (Insurance), I have found the book useful in relating my experiences to a more techie space."
"This is a well-organized and insightful read about the process behind creating lean products as well as how to apply the process."
"Great read for anybody working in Product Management."
"To book brings a lot of insights and real life examples which make it a real "playbook" that you can use with your own products or projects."
Best Direct Marketing
of other books Learn to Market Your Business on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and all major Social Media Marketing platforms Watch Videos - view step-by-step companion VIDEOS that SHOW you how to do SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Use the Worksheets - download WORKSHEETS and QUIZZES that guide you step-by-step to social media success. Social Media Marketing – an overview to social media marketing at a conceptual level. Note: due to its practical, step-by-step nature, this social media marketing book is an excellent companion with books such as Social Media for Dummies, Social Media Marketing in a Day, Social Media Marketing for Dummies, The Art of Social Media (Guy Kawasaki), Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology (Adam Alter), and Chaos Monkeys (Antonio Garcia Marquez). The Social Media Marketing Workbook is listed on many lists of the best social media marketing books of 2018. Author Jason McDonald has been active on the Internet since 1994 and has taught SEO, AdWords, and Social Media since 2009 – online, at Stanford University Continuing Studies, at both AcademyX and the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco, at workshops, and in corporate trainings across these United States.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's great for beginners (if you are a beginner that's a pro). It covers the main social platforms of today. There are a lot of noted resources for support. Cons: The book is only the basics. The book does not dive into how to make money using social media, just how to use it. As a professor, I probably wouldn't use this book because of it's basic nature, but as an entrepreneur with a small business I see the application."
"This book would be very good for complete beginners."
"THE POWER IN THIS BOOK IS SPOT ON."
"This book not only explains the importance of social media, but also how to utilize it specifically for marketing!"
"Absolutely love all the books by Jason McDonald."
"Great resource for social media marketing professionals."
"I love this book the information was just as educational as it was powerful and to the point."
"I don't understand a lot when it comes to anything on the internet but this was written in a way that made it easy to understand."
Best Web Marketing
The Everything Store is the book that the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Chosen as aBest Book of 2013 by The Washington Post , Forbes , The New Republic , and Gizmodo , and as one of the Top 10 Investigative Journalism Books of 2013 by Nieman Reports. " The Everything Store is a revelatory read for everyone--those selling and those sold to--who wants to understand the dynamics of the new digital economy. If you've ever one-clicked a purchase, you must read this book." "A deeply reported and deftly written book.... Like Steven Levy's "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives," and "Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry -- and Made Himself the Richest Man in America" by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, it is the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I wasn't really planning on reviewing this book, because I was mentioned in it several times and it didn't seem appropriate. But several other people who were also mentioned in the book have already posted reviews, and in fact, MacKenzie Bezos, in her well known 1-star review, suggested that other "characters" might "step out of books" and "speak for themselves". Since Mr. Stone did not have access to Jeff Bezos for this book, but had to rely on previous interviews and the accounts of others, it would be surprising if there weren't a few mistakes regarding his thought processes. As part of my agreement to be interviewed for this book, I was allowed to read a draft of the chapter which covered the time I was there, and I offered a number of corrections, some of which Mr. Stone was able to verify and incorporate. I have a pretty high degree of confidence that Mr. Stone made a significant effort, and did what was in his power, to make the book accurate. The irony is, of course, that by reviewing the book as MacKenzie Bezos did, she has brought an immense amount more attention to it -- there are dozens of articles referring to her review via Google News this morning -- and its sales rank has shot up considerably."
"This story about Jeff Bezos just confirms that in order to do big things in the universe, you've got to have a superhuman amount of drive, a vision, initiative; you've got to continue to create, think big, don't be afraid to fail and carry on in spite of the critics."
"This feels like a book written largely to tell the amazon story from the side of amazon."
"An impressive narrative that takes you into the Amazon executive suite S3 where hand-to-hand combat is waged over what markets to conquer and drive rivals into the arms of Amazon."
"Exciting story of one of the great companies and entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos."
"If you are one that enjoys business books and have used Amazon for any type or purchases then this book is for you."
"If you are looking merely for business case studies, this would not be the book for you; but if you find the anecdotal stories about the challenges and solutions the team used to build the business, I believe you will find this an outstanding read."
"Definitely worth a read, especially if you're addicted to this company like me."
Best Multilevel Marketing
Before the weekend is over Eric will learn…. - What it takes to outperform 92% of the world’s salespeople. - That failing and being a “failure” are two very different things. - Why it’s important to celebrate success and failure. - The five failure levels and how to progress through them. - How to get past failures quickly and then move on. - That the most empowering word in the world is not yes… it’s NO! --Steven List, Backoftheroom.com. "If you're serious about living your definition of success add Go for No! The ideas shared are terrific and the unique story format that the book is written in makes it a delight to read." Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz are the Courage Crafters. As professional speakers, trainers, and authors they also call themselves "Failure Philosophers" and "Reject-ologoists" and are experts on achieving courageous breakthrough performance through increasing failure rates and other unconventional approaches.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The advise comes through in a non-condescending way, and the story format makesnit enagung to read."
""No" is not an easy thing to hear; no one wants to hear it...unless, of course, you flip the script and "Go for No!"."
"I really enjoyed this book."
"This book is a great instrument in changing the way you think, just make sure to incorporate initial action as thought without action is useless."
"Short and sweet."
"Absolute brain-changer."
"A friend spoke so passionately about it that I bought it and finished it in a day."
"I don't like story type teaching so. this wasn't for me."
Best Telemarketing
Learn how to keep the pipeline full of qualified opportunities and avoid debilitating sales slumps by leveraging a balanced prospecting methodology across multiple prospecting channels. Why the 30-Day Rule is critical for keeping the pipeline full Why understanding the Law of Replacement is the key to avoiding sales slumps How to leverage the Law of Familiarity to reduce prospecting friction and avoid rejection The 5 C’s of Social Selling and how to use them to get prospects to call you How to use the simple 5 Step Telephone Framework to get more appointments fast How to double call backs with a powerful voice mail technique How to leverage the powerful 4 Step Email Prospecting Framework to create emails that compel prospects to respond How to get text working for you with the 7 Step Text Message Prospecting Framework And there is so much more! “In Fanatical Prospecting, you’ll learn exactly what you need to do right now to open more sales conversations, fill your pipeline, and put a lot more money in your pocket. Jeb Blount delivers a powerful formula for fixing activity problems and accelerating sales performance. If you want to understand exactly what it takes to be successful in sales this is the book for you .” John Spence, author of Awesomely Simple and one of the top 100 business thought leaders in the world. Blount explains core principles of prospecting in a story-telling style that begs you to write in the margins and put your own action plan into place. With Fanatical Prospecting as a guide, salespeople can ditch all the failed strategies and trendy, ineffective approaches, that leave them frustrated and getting nowhere, and learn a sure-fire method for increasing sales.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Noticing the book was #1 on Amazon’s telemarketing best seller list, I ordered a copy and began reading with an open mind. The book, especially at the beginning and the very end, is about 50% standard sales motivation content covering well-trodden material like the amygdala/lizard brain, Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on body language, etc. Knowing that activity takes 90+ days to pay off, successful salespeople relentlessly fill their pipeline through a mixture of telephone, in-person, e-mail, social selling, text messaging, referrals, networking, inbound leads, trade shows, and cold calling. “Top performers organize their day into distinct time blocks dedicated to specific activities, concentrating their focus and eliminating distractions within those blocks… We schedule our prospecting blocks [on our calendars] into three “Power Hours” that are spread across the day—morning, midday, and afternoon.”. 4. For this reason, the social channel is better suited to building familiarity, lead nurturing, research, nuanced inbound prospecting, and trigger-event awareness.”. 7. “The feeling of rejection happens the moment you get a reflex response, brush-off, or objection (RBO)… Overcoming doesn't work. The key is a disruptive statement or question that turns them around so that they lean toward you rather than move away from away from you… When they say they're busy, instead of arguing them into how you will only take a little bit of their time, say, “I figured you would be.” Agreeing with them disrupts their thought pattern… When they say, “Just send me some information,” say, “Tell me specifically what you are looking for.” This calls their bluff and forces engagement… When they say, “I'm not interested,” say, “That makes sense."
"I bought this book hoping to find information on many forms of prospecting, and how to bring it all together into a structure. With 320 pages, I felt for sure there would be a chapter on bringing it all together, like 'A day in the life of a fanatical prospector', to give the reader a sample framework in which to form a basis to change how they prospect. That's what I needed, as I'm pretty good with scripting, but my overall time management and flow of the multiple prospecting mediums sucks. An additional note: I'm getting a little frustrated with the fact that there are more and more books loaded with compensated reviewers on Amazon."
"As a result, even if I've been in sales for quite a while, it humbles me to say that I've learned more about prospecting in the short span of time of reading this book than I ever did when in my entire selling career. The range of lessons the book offers is both broad and balanced, and I can confidently say that all of my questions, doubts, and even objections about prospecting have been satisfactorily handled."