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What Problem Does "Getting Shit Done" Solve?
Tired of seeing plans fail to fail to be achieved on time? GSD solves this problem for you and your organization.
Strategy-execution failures are all around us. Enough is enough- let's stop talking and start doing!
Why Does this Problem Matter?
Organizations continue to struggle to achieve their strategies. Although organizations and industries can identify what needs to change, most strategy-execution efforts fail. Those strategy executions that don't fail outright will limp forward. Staggering price tags, incomplete deliverables, and a demoralized workforce usually lie in the wake of many change efforts.
Not that this is a new problem, but the pace of competition and innovation today has substantially raised the stakes of the game. What worked yesterday may not work today, and an organization needs to be dynamic enough to choose new courses of action and make them a reality.
Enough already.
Closing the strategy execution gap starts by acknowledging that execution is a distinctive discipline and skill set built over time. By learning how to set better targets, align resources, lead at all levels, deliver results, and build controls around processes, we learn to build a system that ensures what gets done, stays done.
10 Reasons You NEED to Buy "Getting Shit Done."
1. Learn why plans fail to come together and what you can do to fix the problem.
2. Learn why plans don't happen on time and how you can use simple tools to fix the problems.
3. Learn why decentralization empowerment for ensuring everyone cares about Getting Shit Done.
4. Learn the difference between ownership and accountability, why they matter, and how to get others to care.
5. Learn why plans fail to come together due to poor communication and which best practices you can adopt today to make your communication clear, concise, and execution-focused.
6. Learn why culture is so crucial to ensuring plans are achieved and how you can build a strategy-execution culture.
7. Learn how you improve your knowledge and awareness and become a leader who can help improve how you, your team, and your organization achieve ambitious goals.
8. Learn how you think like a leader who can help improve how you, your team, and your organization achieve ambitious goals.
9. Learn how you take action like a leader who can help improve how you, your team, and your organization achieve ambitious goals.
10. Learn the 16 key principles that must be understood and enacted to significantly improve your organization's strategy-execution capability.
What Problem Does "265 Strategy-Execution Questions" Solve?
This book shares all the crucial lessons about solving the strategy-execution problem but in a condensed format to save the reader time and effort. The book asks users to reflect and assess their strategy-execution effectiveness to get better at getting things done and done on time.
Why Does This Problem Matter?
The strategy-execution problem matters because it applies to every organization and is persistent. Organizations and teams that learn how to get strategy-execution right will thrive in their careers and personal lives.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "265 Strategy-Execution Questions"
1. Easy to digest chapter summaries and reflection questions.
2. The questions are designed to be worked on as a team and then discussed and acted on.
3. The book is a quick reference guide to ensure work is consistently done at high standards.
What is "265 Strategy-Execution Questions" about?
This book summarizes the takeaways from each chapter of Getting Shit Done and helps teams and individuals assess their effectiveness through a series of questions after each chapter to help identify your strategy-execution prowess.
What Problem Does "Your Career in Modern Management Accounting: Getting Hired, Promoted, and Achieving Success!" Solve?
Although college students and young professionals are often guided towards public accounting straight out of college, management accounting should hold at least equal weighting in career considerations. This book shares everything you need to know to decide if a career in management accounting is right for you.
A career in management accounting is an exciting and rewarding decision that has only become more critical to professional satisfaction and business success over time. Management accountants are everywhere and work for organizations of all shapes, sizes, industries, and regions worldwide.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
The demand for talented professionals is only increasing and shows no signs of slowing down. As new technology enters the field, a new generation of talent is needed.
With above-average wages, an outstanding work-life balance, and the ability to influence change, management accounting is a rewarding career path for students and young professionals.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "Your Career in Modern Management Accounting: Getting Hired, Promoted, and Achieving Success!"
1. Learn everything you need to know about management accounting from an expert in the field.
2. Learn the real differences in career paths, job requirements, and earnings potential between public and management accounting
3. Learn which skills, technologies, competencies, and certifications are in-demand to start your management accounting career off right.
What is the book about?
Part 1: Is Management Accounting the Right Career For College Students?
Part 2: Getting Hired in Managerial Accounting
Part 3: Growing in Your Early Career
Conclusion- Your Modern Career in Management Accounting
Recommended Reading
FAQ- Career in Management Accounting
What Problem Does "Writers' Strategy Execution How-To Handbook: Turn your writing ideas into success" Solve?
This book helps a writer understand what strategy is and why it's crucial to long-term success. By following along in the chapters, readers will put together a winning strategy that is uniquely them.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
Without a writing strategy, many writers fall into the commodity trap, fighting in a race to the bottom, competing on price and word count, which results in burnout.
Reasons You NEED to "Buy Writers' Strategy Execution How-To Handbook: Turn your writing ideas into success."
1. Creating a writing strategy is the best way to stand apart from the crowd and achieve your writing goals.
2. This book explains all strategy concepts in an easy-to-grasp manner so writers can position themselves uniquely.
3. The book covers every aspect of helping a writer identify a strategy, set goals, and measure themselves against those targets.
What is the book about?
Why You Should Be the Only One Without a Writing Strategy
The 5 Competitive Forces Shaping the Writing Industry
How to Develop a Winning Writing Strategy
Assessing Your Writing Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats
Performing a Competitive Writing Analysis
6. Identify Your Reader
Assembling Your Writing Strategy
Executing Your Writing Strategy
Measuring Your Writing Success
Why KPIs Matter to Writers
Types of Metrics
Key Principles in Measuring Writing Progress
What Problem Does "The Complete CSCA (Certified in Strategy & Competitive Analysis) Study Guide Solve?"
To achieve extraordinary career growth, individuals must demonstrate leadership by identifying their company's strategy-execution gap and filling it themselves.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
CSCAs are uniquely positioned to help their organizations succeed by providing an invaluable perspective on strategy. They must be involved with all critical components around execution, fit, and implementation if they want any impactful role within the organization's success!
Those who have mastered both the art of creating great strategies and executing those plans will be successful in today's competitive business world.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "The Complete CSCA (Certified in Strategy & Competitive Analysis) Study Guide"
1. This book is the only guide available to prepare students to master the CSCA body of knowledge and pass the exam on the first try.
2. Gain a complete understanding of what strategy is at the college level
3. Learn what the role of management accountants is in supporting an organization's strategy and also in executing the strategy.
What is the book about?
Part 1: The Strategic Planning Process
Part 2: Environmental Scanning and Internal Analysis
Part 3: Creating Competitive Advantage at the Business and Functional Levels
Part 4: Corporate and Global Strategies and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
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Part 5: Strategy Implementation and Performance Evaluation
What Problem Does "You Should Go to a Time Share Presentation: Understanding the Six Principles of Persuasion Used to Sell Consumers On TimeShares and Learn How to Counter Them" Solve?
This book is a short, six-part series about the six Principles of Persuasion, breaks down each influence element, and shares a story where my wife and I experienced a high-pressure timeshare salesfloor.
Ultimately, we escaped without buying a single thing and earned our $200 voucher because we knew what to expect and turned the tables on the unsuspecting sales team. We teach other consumers how to do the same thing.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
For many people who attend timeshare pitches, the story often doesn't end well in these similar sales environments. The book explains the tactics sales professionals use to swindle consumers. By reading the book, readers will identify and counter each principle.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "You Should Go to a Time Share Presentation: Understanding the Six Principles of Persuasion Used to Sell Consumers On TimeShares and Learn How to Counter Them"
1. By understanding each persuasion principle, knowing the signs, and how to say "no," you will be well-positioned to avoid being taken advantage of by others by being persuaded to buy or do what someone else wants.
2. Learn how to identify and counter the most powerful forces of persuasion
3. Learn how to sell to others using psychology.
What is the book about?
Part I
Learn what the 6 principles of persuasion are, how they are used on consumers, and how to counter them.
1. Reciprocity
2. Liking
3. Social proof
4. Authority
5. Scarcity
6. Consistency
Part II
Understand the 6 stages of a timeshare to learn what to expect and when to escape the sales floor or lock in the deal of a lifetime.
What Problem Does Getting Shit Done Solve?
For those who take management seriously, the Great Resignation will be an opportunity to redesign organizations for the future of work.
While the employee turnover occurring across our country and economy is a startling trend,
those diligent in studying the causes will also recognize retention strategies to help retain current employees and attract their competitor's best and brightest talent.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
The Great Resignation is very real and upon us all. Its impact is seen in virtually all industries, and nothing can stop your best people from leaving.
Our society has reached a boiling point as a collective whole regarding American workplaces. People are anxious and, in many cases, are outright refusing to return to a system built to prioritize the needs of employers, often at a great personal sacrifice to employees.
Reasons You NEED to Buy Getting Shit Done
1. Learn what's driving The Great Resignation
2. Learn what changes in policy, management, and culture are required to attract and keep great employees
3. Learn how poor leadership and management define corporate cultures
What is the book about?
The Great Resignation explores the real reasons people are quitting their jobs, leaving the workforce, and not looking back. By understanding the root causes, the book builds on solutions that can be adopted to build and keep a workforce in place and engaged.
What Problem Does "The Time to End Standard Costing Has Finally Arrived" Solve?
For many manufacturing organizations, standard costing has been the default inventory valuation practice for the last several decades. Originating in the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company was the first mass producer to champion and adopted the practice, which borrowed heavily from Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management theories.
However, the time has come to thoroughly analyze our inventory costing systems to determine if what we already have is really good enough. Are you confident that your standard cost system produces accurate results and delivers what you need, how you need it?
A combination of perennial pain points and new technologies suggests that a new, better approach is warranted.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
Using standard costing in all organizations without understanding available options leads to substandard decision-making, inventory valuation, resource consumption, and a lack of clarity around business drivers and outcomes.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "The Time to End Standard Costing Has Finally Arrived"
1. Learn about the limitations of standard costing
2. Learn about the advantages of average costing
3. Learn how to implement average costing
4. Learn about where each costing methodology is most effective
What is the book about?
What is Standard Costing?
Basic Standard Cost Calculations
Why is Standard Costing Used
Standard Costing Advantages
Standard Costing Disadvantages
Standard Cost Variance Analysis
The Impact of Bad Standards on the Financial Statements
Implementing Average Cost to Replace Standard Cost
What Problem Does "Becoming a Leader Through Business Process Improvement: Leading through Change" Solve?
This book explains the key technical and soft skill principles around identifying opportunities for process improvement and how to redesign and implement a better process that stays fixed.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
Too many process improvement methodologies or advice focus on statistical analysis, while this book focuses on approachable, common-sense tools and frameworks.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "Becoming a Leader Through Business Process Improvement: Leading through Change"
1. Learn how to get started as a business process improvement pro and why it improves your earnings potential
2. Learn how to conduct process mapping
3. Learn how to lead a team through a process change
4. Learn how to manage through internal resistance
5. Learn how to identify the best opportunities for improvement
What is the book about?
This book is a practical guide to understanding the hard and soft skills involved in analyzing and improving business processes. This book will introduce you to the Fishbone Diagram, SIPOC, the High-Level Process Map, the Detailed Process Map, the Relationship Map, and the Five Whys. This course teaches you how to understand and apply DMAIC to any scenario.
This book also informs and educates on the intricacies of building influence and teams to be able to drive change effectively. You will understand which processes are ripe for change, how to approach change initiatives, and also learn from best practices from modern business process improvement.
What Problem Does "Empathy in Business Leadership: Empathy & The Dark Side of Empathy" Solve?
For professionals who find empathy doesn't come naturally, there is good news- Empathy is a skill that can be learned and strengthened. Given enough time and support (such as coaching, training, and other development opportunities), nearly everyone can learn to be more empathetic. While challenging for some, we can develop this skill in many ways.
Why Does this Problem Matter?
Empathy is a valuable trait to possess and can make you an outstanding person or leader in your field of study and profession. Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings without having experienced that situation or event directly. The end goal of empathy is to create connections at a fundamental level, making people more likely to work together toward a common goal.
Reasons You NEED to Buy "Empathy in Business Leadership: Empathy & The Dark Side of Empathy"
1. Learn what empathy is and why it matters
2. Learn how you can be more empathetic
3. Learn where and how empathy can be used to improve outcomes
4. Learn to be more empathic with and towards other people
What is the book about?
How Can You Develop & Maintain Empathy?
Using Empathy to Develop High-Performing Teams
The Dark Side of Empathy
What is Empathy?
The Dark Side of Empathy
The Solutions