The Northbound Train: Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization

This is a powerful book about strategic vision: what it is, why it's critically important, how to create it, and how to implement it. Using the metaphor of a train to focus the attention of business leaders on knowing where they and their organizations are going, Karl Albrecht brings together the best of strategic thinking models and methods. A Fortune Book Club selection, and chosen by the American Management Association for worldwide distribution to its more than 60,000 members, this book is the bible for strategic customer focus. Karl Albrecht's seven-step model of strategy formulation has become the method of choice for many executives who want to shape the future of their enterprises. He integrates the two critical success concepts of customer focus and strategic vision, and provides a step-by-step process for aligning strategy, people, and systems around the core concept of customer value. Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager says, "Karl Albrecht's comprehensive book explores future trends in the business world and what successful companies will need to concentrate on to survive and prosper. It will encourage many executives to think and rethink their company's future direction." Provide a copy of The Northbound Train to each of your executives, managers, and team leaders.

Business & Money

Albrecht, Dr. Karl

Management & Leadership

Karl Albrecht International

A brief, inspiring parable about being "stuck" and - more importantly - getting unstuck. Three people, all of whom are struggling with difficult life situations, separately and individually happen upon a tranquil pond in a small, secluded park. As they muse about their difficulties, a frog appears from the pond. Their conversations with the frog lead them to discoveries and realizations that free them from their stuck circumstances. The frog never judges, never evaluates, and never gives advice - it merely offers questions. In those very simple but wise questions, they find the answers that open the way to the lives they really want to live. Is the frog real? Does it actually talk to them, or are they simply hearing the voice of their own inner wisdom? Does your own inner frog have a special wisdom to offer you, if you can only hear it? You'll have to answer those questions for yourself. Give copies of Conversations With a Frog to your friends, colleagues, co-workers, and family.

Conversations With a Frog: A Little Book About Being Stuck - and Getting Un-stuck

Self-Help

Motivational

Albrecht Publishing Company

Still a widely read classic, this best-selling book started the service revolution in America and internationally in 1985. It was the first book to herald the arrival of the new service economy, to address the need for a new paradigm of service management, and to define the basic elements of the new paradigm. Read by hundreds of thousands of business people and translated into seven languages, praised and imitated, its timeless truths will never go out of style. Service America belongs on the desk of every executive, manager, and business owner. Re-released by the authors. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, of Harvard Business School, says, "Persuasive and illuminating. I can't think of a single business that could not reap benefits from learning this." Provide a copy of Service America to each of your executives, managers, and team leaders.

Service America!: Doing Business in the New Economy

Easy games and puzzles to develop your logic muscles.

Brain Building: Develop Your Logic Muscles

Creativity

One of Karl Albrecht's most highly praised books is Your Strategic Radar: Tracking the Forces that Are Shaping Your Business. This book is the author's re-release edition, containing all of the material from the original version, published by AMA under the title Corporate Radar.  It is also the topic of a keynote speech and seminar he presents at various management conferences, and also the focus of much of his consulting work with organizations that seek to base their strategic direction on a clear understanding of the business environment.  Prof. Warren Bennis of USC (author of On Becoming a Leader) says: "...Albrecht's most important book. He puts his finger on the main reason organizations go south into oblivion: failing to understand the cartography of inflection points that, if unnoticed, will derail the best of companies — and the best of executives. Must reading for any organization that wants to be in the phone book after [the new millennium]."

Your Strategic Radar: Tracking The Forces That Are Shaping Your Business

. . . being a collection of peculiar ideas, curious questions, oddball observations, pithy quotations, factoids, lame jokes, quirky definitions, mysteries, weird news stories, rants, witticisms and nitwitticisms, strange speculations, and other stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know

Brain Snacks: Fast Food for Your Mind

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Eyethink Books

Blueprint for a New America: A Plan for Reinventing Our Republic for a Challenging New World

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

AlbrechtPubCo

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