Do Less Better: The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World
- 3h 15m
- John R. Bell
- Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
- 2014
Do Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. According to Bell, a company's willingness to focus on a particular vision or identity ensures viability and strengthens its competitive edge.
About the Author
Before becoming an author of business books and historical fiction, John Bell was a CEO, global strategy consultant, and a director of several private, public, and not-for-profit organizations. A prolific blogger, John's musings on strategy, leadership, and branding have appeared in various journals such as Fortune, Forbes and ceoafterlife.com. Do Less Better. The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World, was released by Palgrave Macmillan USA in 2015. This book helps leaders recognize the complexity within their businesses and suggests how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. For leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs who need help embracing the practices that foster agility, foresight, and resilience, Do Less Better provides a tool-kit of road-tested strategies.
In this Book
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Do Less Better—The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World
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Introduction
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Accept the Short-term Pain
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The Steel and Steal of Strategic Sacrifice
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Your Leadership Reality Check
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The Urgency for Action
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Think Like an Entrepreneur
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KISS Is Not a Rock Band
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Bastions of Branding
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Fewer, Better People Doing Less, Better
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Regrets . . . I’ve Had a Few
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Notes
