Bøger af Alan Lewis

Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you?In todays volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business.In this insightful yet practical book, strategy experts Alan Lewis and Dan McKone articulate a mindset that helps leaders recognize and capitalize on these opportunities.The Edge Strategy framework challenges how the boundaries of your existing products and services map to your customers views of the world and then provides three different lenses through which you can see and leverage value: Product edge. How to capture incremental profits and other benefits by slightly altering the elements and composition of a core offering Journey edge. How to create and capture extra value by adjusting your role in supporting the customers journey to and through your offering Enterprise edge. How to unlock additional value from resources and capabilities that support your core offering by applying them in a different context, for a different offering or different set of customersWith engaging examples across many industries, Lewis and McKone coach you on how to identify and assess each of the different edges and then provide concrete insights and advice on applying edge strategy and tactics to use in specific business contexts. The book concludes with a ten-step process to help executives and managers find and leverage the edges in their own companies.Edge Strategy is the concise, hands-on guide for growing your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.

In the summer of 1947, the attention of all New England was riveted upon a rape/murder trial in the historic town of Plymouth, Massachusetts -- one of those run-of-the-mill crimes that somehow captures the public imagination far out of proportion to its novelty or significance. Perhaps it was the victim, the "attractive (or raven-haired, or carefree) vacationist," or the defendant's mother, who somehow usurped the victim's mother as the "gray-haired, grieving mother." The already-sensational trial became a media phenomenon when defense attorney Matthew King enlisted the era's leading criminal lawyer to argue the case in court. The defendant, despite a strong circumstantial case, was found innocent, and no one else was ever charged. Now, thirty-five years later, a chance encounter leads one of the trial's participants to re-examine her memories. Winnie King brought the case to her husband after befriending the defendant's mother at the Fascination parlor. In the uncomfortable role of wife of the defense counsel and friend of the victim's mother, Winnie felt obligated to keep a secret that, if revealed, could have impugned her friend's credibility and altered the trial's outcome. Long after the trial, when she finally felt ready to tell her husband, he was already starting to lose his memory to early-onset Alzheimer's. Haunted ever since by the victim's unquiet sleep, Winnie is finally able to come to terms with her husband's complicity, and her own, in letting an apparently guilty killer go free. Based on the true story of one of the postwar era's most notorious murder trials, The Fascination Parlor is not about solving mysteries, but creating them - how the clarity of guilt or innocence dissolves in the trial's theatrics and optics, the defense's deconstruction of truth and memory, and the biased worldview of a jury system that excluded women.

For all of the above reasons, I think this book should be required reading for basic economics classesYou may have noticed and ignored the phrase 'blockchain' as a fad, buzzword or even technological jargon. Yet I think blockchain is a technical breakthrough that will have far-reaching consequences that will not only disrupt the financial sector but also many other companies and industries.A blockchain is a distributed network, which ensures that the data base storage devices aren't all connected to a single server. It preserves an the inventory of ordered documents, which are called blocks. Any block has a timestamp and a connexion to an earlier block. Users can only change blockchain pieces they "own" by providing the private keys needed to write to the register. Blockchain may answer this philosophic problem of AI. Blockchain ledgers decentralise data access and processing power while also keeping data and services accessible to the broader network.

A chilling vision of a dystopian society, a short step down the slippery slope of today's national security state. Faced with a world where security contractors and the rich are beyond the reach of justice, a shadowy conspiracy of war vet cops seeks to restore the rule of law, one assassination at a time. That's what their newest recruit thinks, at least. Mike Collins, three-tour Iraq war vet and Denver cop, goes over the edge when his wife, suffering a miscarriage, disappears into the Pre-Born Protection Unit. At the direction of a fellow cop, he carries out a series of cold-blooded "administrations" of contractors who committed war crimes and were never punished. The deeper Collins gets into the conspiracy, the less he knows. Is it what he believes it to be? Where does it end? Does it even exist? That way lies madness, and Blue Rider traces the descent of one human being, and the larger society, back into the jungle.

Wrestling with Girls is the unlikely, outrageous, and at least partly true story of a major cultural icon of 20th Century America -- the man who brought professional wrestling to television. Hack Hallestrom is a lifelong loser on the verge of cashing in his one good idea. Unfortunately, he's about to die. Part P.T. Barnum, part Homer Simpson, Hallestrom is a forward-looking entrepreneur trapped in wrestler's trunks, just smart enough to get into serious trouble. When an opponent died in the ring seven years ago, he was forced to flee Minnesota rather than tell what he knew about a mobster's involvement. If he ever returns, there's a D.A. waiting to grill him, and a hitman who'll kill him first. But in wrestling's scripted morality plays, our future is written by our past, and Hallestrom's beginnings are about to write his end. Forced at last to take arms against his sea of troubles, the reluctant Dane returns home to confront his responsibility. With the help of the woman he's married to, the woman he thinks he's married to, and the woman he wants to marry, he just might get through. Wrestling with Girls is a comic noir fable about ambition and moral myopia in the go-go prosperity of 1950s America. It's also a loving look at the early days of modern professional wrestling, when the new medium of television transformed a carny grotesquerie into a living-room favorite.

The late 19th century was the golden age of scientific quackery, and the American West was its motherlode. Daniel Spurlock, a mentally troubled Texas orphan, turns to phrenology for clues to his brain's mysteries. His phrenological skill leads to a lucrative practice, and his discovery of the "murder organ" - the part of the human brain that instills both a predilection and a talent for homicide - brings him to the forefront of the emerging field of forensic science. But an ill-considered marriage proposal to his invaluable assistant, a disastrous pilgrimage to the Italian castle of a reckless brain surgeon, and phrenology's waning popularity shatter his carefully nurtured equilibrium and reduce him to private detective work. Called to Chicago to assist in a sensational murder trial, Spurlock comes face to face with the limits of science and reason, and the hard truths of fickle love and frontier justice.

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Suitable for executives, managers, business owners, or entrepreneurs, this title shows you how to adapt and thrive in times of change and crisis, create a corporate culture that promotes talent and growth, invest in leadership at all levels and in people with potential, and, gives back to the world through good works and philanthropy.