The Well-Timed Strategy, Peter Navarro

Is reading the newspapers beginning to make you uneasy about business - Mboweni's pronouncements? Interest rate hikes? Just as the sun rises and sets, so does the business cycle move from expansion and prosperity to a peak and then to a recessionary trough and then back to expansion. Despite the profound impact that business cycles have on businesses, their employees and investors, this is the first book I have come across on how to strategically manage and exploit these cycles for opportunities! Prof. Navarro draws real-world examples from the hundreds of companies he has analyzed to illustrate each of the well-timed strategies and tactics of highly successful executives. Because cycles affect every part of the company from HR to Marketing and Finance - every manager needs to know Navarro's six part method..

Powerful Times, Eamonn Kelly

Knowledge is information that is vital to a business, because it increases its competitiveness - it is a company's intellectual capital. In order to innovate quickly, improve standards, or get best practices shared across the organization, you must transfer this capital in a deliberate, systematic way. This book provides a method for doing this successfully, that goes beyond knowledge management by providing a framework for getting the good stuff to move to parts of the organization where it can be exploited. The core concepts of the book are presented in the context of winning a four phase race to see who can transfer knowledge fastest - but this race has no end. Theirs is a proven way to replicate successes and to take advantage of excellent intellectual assets already captured and available for transfer.