If you're a business owner feeling trapped in the daily grind or not at the level you want to be, then you're not alone...

In this book, Natalie Dawson, best-selling author of TeamWork: How To Build A High-Performance Team, shares her proven playbook for busy business owners looking to break free from doing it all by themselves (or feeling like they have to) and start building their business so that it's dependent on your team and not just you as the business owner.

Growing a business requires more than just daily operations; it demands strategic scaling. Many leaders, while busy running their businesses, miss out on opportunities to expand their team, reach, and revenue because they don't understand the scaling process. As the co-founder and president of Cardone Ventures, Natalie Dawson not only led her company from $2.7 million in revenue in 2019 to $146.8 million in 2023, but she has also coached thousands of clients to grow their businesses exponentially.

In the early days, she managed multiple roles-from people and operations to technology, running 40 events per year. Over time, she has systematically replaced herself with skilled team leaders, growing our team to 220 members. This book shares my secrets on effectively duplicating your role and expanding your business. It provides practical tools and strategies necessary for substantial growth, applicable across any industry.

The book is structured into four sections: Time, You, Your Culture, Your Team. It starts with how to optimize your time-the foundation for personal growth and business expansion. The following sections delve into cultivating your habits, designing a scalable culture, and structuring your team for maximum effectiveness. Each section is designed to shift your focus from day-to-day operations to long-term growth strategies.

Whether you're a startup founder hungry for rapid growth or an established business owner dreaming of expansion, 'Start the Work' delivers invaluable guidance to drive measurable results and propel your business toward a scalable future.

A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge(R) (BABOK(R) Guide) is the only globally recognized standard of practice for business analysis. Developed through a rigorous consensus-driven standards process, the BABOK(R) Guide incorporates the collective wisdom and experience of experts in the field from around the world. Previous editions have guided hundreds of thousands of professionals in their work, and it has been adopted by hundreds of enterprises as the basis of their business analysis practice. This latest version of the guide extends its scope beyond business analysis in projects to address agile development, business process management, business intelligence, and business architecture. This thoroughly revised and updated version includes: - A concept model that unifies ideas and terminology across business analysis disciplines. - Restructured knowledge areas to support business analysis at every level from small tactical initiatives to major business transformations. - Five perspectives covering the most prominent business analysis disciplines and demonstrating how to apply the knowledge areas in different situations. - Coverage of new business analysis techniques that have gained wide acceptance in the community. - Updated and revised content in every knowledge area and more Whether you are considering starting a career in business analysis, or you are an experienced professional in the field, the BABOK(R) Guide is your key resource to help you and your stakeholders discover opportunities for business success, deliver successful organizational change, and create business value.

Radical Focus is a must-read for anyone who wants to accomplish out-sized results. Christina does a great job showing both the why and the how of OKRs. Avoid the all-too-common mistakes by reading this book first. - Teresa Torres, author Continuous Discovery Habits

The award-winning author of The Team That Managed Itself and Pencil Me In returns with a new and expanded edition of her landmark book on OKRs.

If you've ever wanted to know how to use OKRs, or why yours might not be working, Radical Focus teaches you everything you need to achieve your goals. The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on OKRs in the form of a fable.When Hanna and Jack receive an ultimatum from the only investor in their struggling tea supply company, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Using Hanna and Jack's story, Wodtke walks readers through how to inspire a diverse team to work together in pursuit of a single, challenging goal, and how to stay motivated despite setbacks and failures.Radical Focus has been translated into six languages and sold more than 50,000 copies. Now, the second edition of her OKR manifesto proves that Wodtke's business strategies are essential in a world where focus seems to be a more and more unreachable goal. The updated version includes 22,000 words of all-new material designed to help OKR users in larger companies create, grade, and manage OKRs in ways that accelerate success and drive rapid organizational learning.

Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system for attaining your most important goals with radical focus.

Praise for the Second Edition

Everything good I've ever learned about OKRs I learned from Christina Wodtke and Radical Focus. - Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX, Sense & Respond and Forever Employable

A master at getting things done, Christina offers a radically focused way to achieve one's goals through disciplined use of OKRs. - Irene Au, Design Partner at Khosla Ventures

It has been five years since Christina published the first edition of Radical Focus. The book has gone on to become a favorite for thousands of product people working to learn how to empower their teams, and utilize the OKR technique... I think you will love [the second edition.] It will inspire you.. - Marty Cagan, author of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Together with Doerr, Grove, and Drucker, Christina Wodtke is one of the four people who shaped OKR into the powerful tool it is today. With Radical Focus 2.0, she continues to teach us that success is about having an impact, not checking a box. - Felipe Castro, Founder, OutcomeEdge

The uplifting message of Reinventing Organizations has resonated with readers all over the world, and they have turned it, one conversation at a time, into a word-of-mouth phenomenon. The book has helped shift the conversation from what's broken with management today to what's possible. It is inspiring thousands of organizations--corporations and nonprofits, schools and hospitals--to adopt radically more powerful, soulful, and purposeful practices.

The book resonates widely, but not everyone has time to devote to a dense 360-page management book. This illustrated version conveys the main ideas of the original book and shares many of its real-life stories in a lively, engaging way. Don't be surprised if you find it hard to put down and end up reading it almost in one sitting. Welcome to the conversation on next-stage organizations

Talent doesn't make the team-the team makes the talent. Why are some teams more motivated, innovative, and successful than others? Why do some groups of talented people fall short against lesser teams? And how do you go about building a high-performing team?

Dr. David Burkus understands that to build the best team, you must first shape the habits and practices that bring out the best in each member. Best Team Ever reveals what some of the world's most effective teams do, and shows you how you can do the same.

Banish the frustration of having a team of talented people who can't perform optimally. Discover how to develop a clear, concise understanding of how your team's culture affects its performance. Follow this simple, practical blueprint to cultivate a Best Team Ever environment and set your team on a path to success.

Deconstructing Conflict draws upon nearly fifteen years of experience in which Doug Baumoel and Blair Trippe have helped scores of enterprising families navigate the challenges of owning and managing together as family. Based upon their groundbreaking methodology known as The Conflict Equation, the book presents five foundational concepts to help readers deconstruct conflict into its component parts. It will help you understand the reasons that underlie all conflict, what triggers active conflict, and why conflict can be so extreme and intractable in family business systems. This book will arm family business stakeholders and their advisors with the most cutting-edge thinking for achieving generational success in family enterprise.

The best book on change I've ever read... (Bank CEO)

The best book on change in fifteen years, perhaps longer... (Organization Development consultant)

Leaders need guidance on leading change grounded in the latest science, not 20th-century myths. In this updated 2019 edition of The Science of Organizational Change, Paul takes us on a journey from change mythology, from New Age change ideas, from reports in drawers, and from pop psychology up to the present.

In the first comprehensive treatment of behavioral science in business, you'll learn which cognitive biases caused the 2008 Financial Crisis, Enron, and the Deepwater Horizon. Later in the book, you'll discover how evidence-based management is helping leading businesses including Google.

The author's 30-year career, scholarly approach, but without dry academic writing make this book a must-read for all managers interested in change. Few authors incorporate findings from psychology, sociology, medicine, philosophy of science, ethics, public policy, economics, and mathematics into books on change. Fewer still do it in an interesting way.

Read case studies from Cisco, Intel, Nokia, BP, Shell, Barclays, British Airways, Comcast, and PwC - all former clients of the author where he advised at C-suite level.

This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly. - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know



An actionable business book in the form of a fable.



Radical Focus tackles the OKR movement and better goal setting through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack's struggling tea startup. When the two receive an ultimatum from their only investor, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Will they be able to accomplish the few critical actions that will save their startup? Or will they end up mired in distractions and choices as their time runs out?



The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on goal setting in fable form. How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and failures? As you see through Hanna and Jack's story, it's about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail. Wodtke adds a bonus section in the second half of the book to lay out her most practical insights into applying Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to your specific workplace and challenges.



Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system of decision making to create your focus and find success.

The 'inside-the-box approach' can reveal key opportunities for innovation that are hiding in plain sight (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive).The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to think outside the box--to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it's a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally. Inside the Box demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which systemizes creativity as part of the corporate culture. This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity requires thinking inside the box, working in one's familiar world to create new ideas independent of specific problems. SIT's techniques and principles have instilled creative thinking into such companies as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and other industry leaders. Inside the Box shows how corporations have successfully used SIT in business settings as diverse as medicine, technology, new product development, and food packaging. Dozens of books discuss how to make creative thinking part of a corporate culture, but none takes the innovative and unconventional approach of Inside the Box. With inside the box thinking, companies of any size can become sufficiently creative to solve problems even before they develop and to innovate on an ongoing basis. It's a system that works! Boyd and Goldenberg explain the basic building blocks for creativity and by doing so help all of us better express our potential (Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational).

An instant USA Today bestseller - A Globe and Mail Top 10 Business and Management Book of 2024

From an experienced organizational psychologist comes a unique guide to learning how to better read and understand people and make improved, more informed business decisions about them--including choosing the right employees, fostering relationships in the workplace, resolving conflicts more effectively, and optimizing your performance on the job--using the science of personality.

Psychologists widely agree that five key traits define our personalities--intellect, emotionality, sociability, drive, and diligence. Unlike emotions, which are transitory in nature, these traits determine our behaviors, including our motivations, social inclinations, reactions to crisis or complexity, patterns of thinking, and more.

Organizational psychologist Dr. Richard Davis is an expert in assessing personalities. He has spent decades advising business leaders and evaluating executives from some of the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Under Armour, Meta, Starbucks, Nike, LVMH, and the NBA. Over the course of his career, he has helped numerous executives make tough, highly consequential hiring calls based on personality. A company's board might want its next CEO to be decisive, focused, and a strong communicator. Investors backing a start-up might want a leader who is not only a visionary but also a team player who doesn't retaliate when given constructive feedback. That's where he comes in. As a result of his life's work, Dr. Davis has developed not only a unique perspective on what human personality is, but an indispensable toolkit for analyzing it, and using the information effectively.

In Good Judgment, he brings his expertise to you. Dr. Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. Whether you're a novice manager looking to hire your first assistant, a board member in need of the ideal CEO, an angel investor trying to choose between two different startups, or a new parent selecting a pediatrician, understanding the science of personality and how to utilize it is the key to exercising good judgment--at work and in life.

Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.

Electrifying in its simplicity--like all great breakthroughs--Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies--lowest cost, differentiation, and focus--which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment.

More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.

Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.

There are hidden laws at work in every aspect of your business. Understand them, and you can create extraordinary growth. Ignore them, and you run the risk of becoming another statistic. It's become almost cliché 8 out of every 10 new ventures fail. Of the ones that succeed, how many truly thrive-for the long run? And of those that thrive, how many continually overcome their growth hurdles ... and ultimately scale, with meaning, purpose, and profitability? The answer, sadly, is not many. Author Lex Sisney is on a mission to change that picture. After more than a decade spent leading and coaching high-growth technology companies, Lex discovered that the companies that thrive do so in accordance with 6 Laws - universal principles that govern the success or failure of every individual, team, and organization. Lex has put those laws into an elegant, easy-to-understand framework called Organizational Physics. In this groundbreaking book, now you can discover how to apply this powerful system of growth to your own life and business. When you read Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business, you'll learn how to: - Understand your business structure, team, strategy, and execution in a whole new way - Make better, and faster, decisions - Create a purposeful, fulfilling, high-growth business - Turn the inevitable breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs for rapid growth - Build and manage aligned, passionate, high-performing teams - Consistently choose the right strategies for growth-even in the midst of seemingly impossible complexity - Design your organizational structure to scale The book is divided into 4 sections and each section builds on the prior one: Part 1 - Learn the law of success and happiness and where to prioritize your time and attention by paying attention to energy drains. Part 2 - Discover the four styles of management and how to build high-performing teams. Part 3 - Choose the right growth strategy in any situation. Part 4 - How to Execute fast by integrating culture, organizational structure and design, team-based decision making, and staffing to role fit The book relies on easy to understand core principles. Once you understand the principles, then you can unlock your own artistry in scaling your business.

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker--an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend.

Containing twenty-six core selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.

Transform your life with groundbreaking science-backed strategies that make lasting change possible. In this revolutionary book, transformative coach Michael J. López combines cutting-edge neuroscience with practical techniques to help you create real, sustainable change in your life, career, and relationships.

Drawing from decades of experience coaching individuals and organizations through transformation, López reveals why traditional approaches to change often fail. He presents a comprehensive framework that actually works. Whether you're looking to advance your career, improve your health, strengthen your relationships, or simply become a more adaptable person, this book provides the blueprint.

You will:

- Master the six science-backed strategies that unlock your brain's natural ability to change

- Learn why willpower alone fails and discover how to create the right conditions for lasting transformation

- Understand how to work with (not against) your brain's natural resistance to change

- Develop practical techniques to break old habits and establish new beneficial patterns

- Build resilience and adaptability as core skills you can apply to any life challenge

- Create a personalized system for initiating and sustaining positive change

- Learn how to turn change itself into a habit, making continuous growth natural and effortless

Perfect for anyone feeling stuck, seeking personal growth, or leading others through transformation, Change provides both the science and the practical strategies needed to create lasting positive change. Stop struggling with temporary fixes and discover how to make meaningful, sustainable transformation possible.

Expanded from Playboy magazine's Axioms of the Mafia Manager

The world's oldest and best-organized conglomerate now reveals management techniques everyone can use. Unlike other guides to business, The Mafia Manager shuns theoretical verbiage to present the philosophy of leadership that founded and captained The Silent Empire through centuries of expansion and success. Some sample pearls of wisdom:

-Be sure you understand what your boss has ordered before you act on his command. What if you whack the wrong guy, or bomb the wrong joint... Learn the art of asking questions.

-Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.

-Don't become involved in any office political battle without first asking yourself, 'What's in it for me?' and then 'What's in it for them?'

-If you must lie, be brief.

Read over 20 exclusive, in-depth interviews with chief sustainability officers (CSOs) of Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Procter & Gamble and globally recognized brands such as IKEA and Netflix. These CSOs reveal how they deliver positive environmental and social impact through their companies' core products and services and generate revenue growth while tackling unique leadership, change management, regulatory and stakeholder challenges.

Sustainability and environmental, social, governance (ESG) strategies are increasingly central to businesses' growth strategy and risk management. As a result, the CSO has become more important as a driver of both revenue and strategy. Yet, no two CSOs are alike in their backgrounds, titles or even the scope of their roles. From former Peace Corps volunteers to supply chain experts, these C-suite leaders launch ambitious carbon emissions and net-zero goals, develop new products for a circular economy, target increasing the diversity of their company's staff, align strategic projects to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and standardize reporting for the SEC, investors and more.

What You Will Learn

• How global multibillion dollar businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia structure their sustainability strategy
• How top sustainability executives drive both business value and positive environmental and social impact
• How CSOs landed in their roles without climbing a traditional career ladder

Who This Book Is For

Executives and board members generally or those establishing a sustainability or ESG strategy; current and aspiring CSOs and ESG leaders; business leaders partnering with sustainability leaders and teams; and students studying the integration of sustainability and business.

Advance praise for Chief Sustainability Officers At Work:

Chief sustainability officers play a critical role in supporting the broader business transition to a more just and sustainable global economy. Through dialogue with influential sustainability professionals, Chrissa brings to life the essential role in bridging gaps and helping to eliminate the divide between traditional business functions, senior leadership, and the sustainability teams to drive transformational change within their firms. - Mindy Lubber, CEO and President, Ceres

Chief Sustainability Officers at Work, is a fresh new book by seasoned business leader Chrissa Pagitsas that offers succinct ways anyone can implement and achieve ESG goals - whether they own the company or simply aspire to improve its impact on people and the planet. Chrissa roots this book in her own experience leading change within major companies that not only improved the businesses where she worked but improved the markets within which they needed to thrive. This is a must read for a seasoned ESG practitioner as much as it is for the young professional just getting started. Chrissa knows it is imperative we all just get started doing better and she opens up the otherwise dark box of how-tos for all of us to do our part. - Dana Bourland, SVP, The JPB Foundation and author of Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises.

How to Use Behavioral Design to Create Change in the Real World

In this ground-breaking book, author Morten M nster presents a set of rules that individuals and companies can follow to bring about necessary change.

Using behavioral design and an accessible four-step method, he shows how people can be persuaded to do one thing instead of another and thereby achieve success.

By examining an array of examples drawn from business, government, various public groups and institutions he demonstrates how the rules can be learned and applied in different contexts.

Toxic behaviors in leaders can be difficult to identify and frightening to call out when you do. Leaders introduce toxicity into their organizations through various ways. This can stem from a fear of being outperformed or falling behind the work of more talented direct reports, or a desire to maintain power and control. However, some unknowingly create a toxic culture because their leadership style has a direct connection to their personality, whether clinically diagnosable or not. Regardless of the origins, leader-driven toxic behaviors have a profound, insidiously devastating impact on team trust, the engagement of talented employees, the organization's culture, and the bottom-line. If you have ever found yourself under the authority of such a leader or been the HR professional tasked with managing a toxic leader, this book can help you understand that you are not alone. The feelings you are experiencing from these negative leadership traits are real and they have a detrimental effect on engagement and productivity.

Unlock the potential of your organization with a transformative look at the connection between personality disorders and toxic leader behavior. Based on actual case studies, Dr. Ollie G. Barnes, author of Diagnosing Toxic Leadership takes a meticulous look at the consequences of toxic leadership. The book also discusses interventions and corrective next steps for creating a healthy work culture. This is a transformative journey toward leadership excellence and organizational success.

Radical Focus is a must-read for anyone who wants to accomplish out-sized results. Christina does a great job showing both the why and the how of OKRs. Avoid the all-too-common mistakes by reading this book first. - Teresa Torres, author Continuous Discovery Habits
This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly. - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know

The award-winning author of The Team That Managed Itself and Pencil Me In returns with a new and expanded edition of her landmark book on OKRs.

If you've ever wanted to know how to use OKRs, or why yours might not be working, Radical Focus teaches you everything you need to achieve your goals. The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on OKRs in the form of a fable.When Hanna and Jack receive an ultimatum from the only investor in their struggling tea supply company, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Using Hanna and Jack's story, Wodtke walks readers through how to inspire a diverse team to work together in pursuit of a single, challenging goal, and how to stay motivated despite setbacks and failures.Radical Focus has been translated into six languages and sold more than 50,000 copies. Now, the second edition of her OKR manifesto proves that Wodtke's business strategies are essential in a world where focus seems to be a more and more unreachable goal. The updated version includes 22,000 words of all-new material designed to help OKR users in larger companies create, grade, and manage OKRs in ways that accelerate success and drive rapid organizational learning.Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system for attaining your most important goals with radical focus.