Top 10 Strategist of All Time
What makes a great strategist? After looking throughout history, this post looks at 10 strategists to rank them based on the results, approach, and tactics used to support the …
Hannibal: The Birth of Strategy
Famous maneuver: double envelopment that compressed and crushed roman infantry He kept his enemies guessing due to his relative speed and unconventionality His superb use of intelligence gathering and …
2005 Called: They Want Their Content Marketing Strategy Back
2005-2009 it was good enough to post and get traction. Then, 2010 “experts” started saying you need to post at least once a day to get traction. 2011-2015 the …
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Avoid Competition and Win Big
Red Ocean. Blue Ocean. The choice is yours. Like Morpheus offering Neo a choice: Red Pill or Blue Pill. The red ocean is bloody. It’s filled with bench-marking, fighting …
14 Books to Unleash the Growth Hacker Within
Growth hacking–the blur between marketing, engineering and product management with a continuous level of high tempo testing. Growth Hackers, the new VP’s of Marketing as Andrew Chen has explained. It’s …
Business Schools Fail at Ethics: 9 Books to Build Moral Fiber
Ethical failures from MBA kids has been detailed by Edward Queen has he writes, “when business students are presented with an ethics case, that is a case where they …
68% of Self-Made Millionaires Read Biographies: 30 Life Stories Show What Works (and What Doesn’t)
What do Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Elon Musk, and scores of other highly successful people have in common? They all have biographies as core reading material. There’s a reason …
10 Books on Startups that Will Make You a Better Founder the First Time
Startups success needs to have better odds. Even if you plan on starting a lifestyle business or a billion-dollar business. This list, created by listening to a ton of …
24 Books for a Career Boosts for Any Stage of a Career
Starting out or starting over? Phases of a career could be at any point of Aspiration (perhaps just starting out and looking to grow), Success (currently moderate achievements), or …
19 Best Marketing Books for Explosive Growth
Marketing looks easy. And setting up an ad account is easy. Reading the case study with 33 tactics is easy. What’s not easy remains getting traction and finding where the …