Strategy Book Shelf
The One-Hour Strategy
A practical approach to engaging the entire organization in strategy and bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Author(s): Jeroen Kraaijenbrink Publication Date: 2023
Demystifying Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Addressing a topic at the forefront of global interests in business and development, this book is the first comprehensive book in the world that addresses ESG wholistically. It combines academic and practical content through multidisciplinary analysis, integrating economics, statistics, finance, strategic management and mathematics with an African focus. Author(s): Karamo NM Sonko, Mariama Sonko Publication Date: 2024
Outlast
Black-swan events, global warming, COVID-19 and a host of other natural and man-made disasters have tested the resilience of businesses across the world. Usually, blame for business failures is apportioned to external factors such as adverse business cycles, badly framed government regulations and lack of infrastructure. However, the causes often lie within -- short-term thinking, destruction of natural resources, exploitation of labour and poor management, to name a few. Author(s): Mukund Rajan, Col. Rajeev Kumar Publication Date: 2021
The Geek Way
A book exploring a new business model pioneered by geeks, shifting paradigms on what a business can and should be. Author(s): Andrew McAfee Publication Date: 2023
The META-VERSE
An exploration of the successor to the mobile internet, discussing the future of interconnected experiences and infrastructure. Author(s): Matthew Ball Publication Date: 2022
Valuation
An exploration of the successor to the mobile internet, discussing the future of interconnected experiences and infrastructure. Author(s): Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels Publication Date: 2020
Strategy beyond the Hockey Stick
While published slightly before 2020, this book remains relevant, focusing on making big strategic moves to achieve exceptional performance. Author(s): Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit Publication Date: 2018
The Real Business of Blockchain
A book exploring the strategic implications of blockchain technology for businesses. Author(s): David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau Publication Date: 2019
The Connector Manager
A book on leadership strategies for talent development. Author(s): Jaime Roca and Sari Wilde Publication Date: 2019
Conscious Leadership
An audio book focusing on leadership strategies that prioritize both business success and societal impact. Author(s): John Mackey, Steve Mcintosh, et al. Publication Date: 2020
Unchartered
A strategic guide to navigating uncertain business environments and planning for the future. Author(s): Margaret Heffernan Publication Date: 2020
Winning Now, Winning Later
A book that outlines strategies for achieving both short-term and long-term business success. Author(s): David Cote Publication Date: 2020
The Fifth Discipline
This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. Author(s): Peter M. Senge Publication Date: 2010
The Essential Drucker
Peter Drucker's wide-ranging book, drawn from his best work, looks at management, the individual and society. Author(s): Peter Drucker Publication Date: 2018
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Author(s): Richard P. Rumelt Publication Date: 2011
Playing to Win
A playbook for creating your company's winning strategy. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future—something that doesn’t happen in most companies. Author(s): A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin Publication Date: 2013
Blue Ocean Strategy
In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Author(s): W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Publication Date: 2015
Risk Book Shelf
Enterprise Risk Management
ERM is considered a dynamic capability that is critical to companies’ success from strategic and performance perspectives and is increasingly implemented in response to growing pressure from external stakeholders to enact and add legitimacy to existing management control systems. However, implementing ERM is a challenging process where success is dependent on balancing technical and social factors. Author(s): Mirna Jabbour, Jason Crawford Publication Date: 2024
Rethinking Enterprise Risk Management
This book provides a critical analysis of existing enterprise risk management models and practices and proposes innovative solutions to address the challenges associated with implementing enterprise risk management strategies. Enterprise risk management activities are not high on the priority agenda of the senior management in both public and private sectors. Conceptual ambiguity and methodological gaps in current standards and frameworks make it difficult to effectively implement enterprise risk management. Author(s): Springer Publication Date: 2024
Against The Gods
In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Author(s): Peter L. Bernstein Publication Date: 2014
Enterprise Risk Management in Today’s World
Enterprise Risk Management in Today’s World examines enterprise risk management in its past, present and future, exploring the role that directors and leaders in organizations have in devising risk management strategies, analysing values such as trust, resilience, CSR and governance within organizations. Benefiting students, researchers and high-level decision makers, this volume fills a gap in the existing literature of the interaction between business and society in the field of enterprise risk management. Author(s): Jean-Paul Louisot Publication Date: 2024
NEXT-GEN Risk Management with AI
Author Dejan Majkic takes readers on a journey through the three pillars of AI-driven risk management: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Predictive Analytics. Author(s): Dejan Majkic Publication Date: 2025
The Black Swan
We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know. Author(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publication Date: 2010
Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. Author(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publication Date: 2001
The Failure of Risk Management
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach. The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods. Author(s): Douglas W. Hubbard Publication Date: 2009
Risk Savvy - How to make good decisions
An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives. Author(s): Gerd Gigerenzer Publication Date: 2013
Thinking in Bets
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions. Author(s): Annie Duke Publication Date: 2018
How to measure anything in Cybersecurity Risk
Doug Hubbard demonstrates how to quantify uncertainty and shed light on how to measure seemingly intangible goals. Author(s): Douglas W. Hubbard and Richard Seiersen Publication Date: 2016
Financial Risk Management
In the Second Edition of Financial Risk Management + Website, market risk expert Steve Allen offers an insider's view of this discipline and covers the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to manage and measure financial risk. Author(s): Steve L. Allen Publication Date: 2013
Financial Risk Forecasting
Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Author(s): Jon Danielsson Publication Date: 2011
Financial Enterprise Risk Management
This comprehensive, yet accessible, guide to enterprise risk management for financial institutions contains all the tools needed to build and maintain an ERM framework. Author(s): Paul Sweeting Publication Date: 2014
Enterprise Risk Management
If you want to understand enterprise risk management from some of the leading academics and practitioners of this exciting new methodology, Enterprise Risk Management is the book for you. Author(s): John Fraser and Betty Simkins Publication Date: 2010
Prepare to Dare
The purpose and idea behind this book is to share and provide a practical approach to utilize the tools and processes of risk management to generate a strategic advantage to organisations. This is based on the past decade during which I was charged with establishing Strategic Risk Management at the LEGO Group. Author(s): Hans Læssøe Publication Date: 2018
Decide to Succeed
Both the ISO 31.000 and the COSO standards are adamant about the notion that “risk management must affect decision making” and drive towards seamlessly integrating the attention to risks, opportunities and uncertainties into the decision making.. Author(s): Hans Læssøe Publication Date: 2020
Resilience Book Shelf
Operational Resilience
Operational Resilience: Beyond the Checklists offers practical insights into developing adaptable, all-encompassing and futureproof operational-resilience strategies. Author(s): Nita Kohli Publication Date: 2024
Excellence in Operational Resilience
Providing essential guidance to thrive in a complex environment, this book showcases tools to take the leadership role in the process of building resilience in any organization in a timely, effective, and practical way for today’s risks and tomorrow’s challenges. Author(s): Mike Janko Publication Date: 2023