Advanced Business Strategy
Coursera
Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.
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High Output Management
Intel CEO Andy Grove's essential management text on leverage, meetings, performance reviews, and systematic approach to maximizing managerial productivity.
Principles: Life and Work
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio's systematic approach to decision-making through radical transparency, idea meritocracy, and algorithmic principles.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Seminal work on disruptive innovation explaining why successful companies fail when facing technological disruption despite good management practices.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Brutally honest Silicon Valley veteran's guide to navigating startup challenges including layoffs, demotions, firing friends, and managing crises.
The Lean Startup
Revolutionary approach to building startups using validated learning, rapid experimentation, and build-measure-learn feedback loops.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
PayPal co-founder's contrarian thinking on building monopolies, creating new markets, and avoiding competition through technological innovation.