Some companies seem to thrive naturally, attaining success after success. Others limp from one lackluster year to the next. What makes one company blossom while another wilts? In CEO Tools 2.0, CEO coach and C-Level executive Jim Canfield reveals the importance of making your business meaningful to yourself, your customers, and your employees. You'll discover how to better communicate your goals, execute your intentions, and optimize your results. The end goal is a healthy, flourishing company that maximizes profits while freeing CEOs from the humdrum routine of daily operations. Imagine having time to fully develop your personal and professional interests, confident in your team's ability to provide high-quality service, products, and results. This is what Canfield offers through a series of seven simple but profound steps: Set your company's direction Communicate with trust Track metrics for insight Anticipate (and create) the future Attract and coach winning team members Build an autonomous company Celebrate your success Filled with practical, actionable ideas and relevant case studies, CEO Tools 2.0 builds upon and updates Kraig Kramers's original CEO Tools. This powerful system enables you to make the most of your time and expertise-and become the CEO you were meant to be.

At last, a managers book for tightening up the nuts and bolts of business. Just a twist of a wrench can literally change your world. Think, for a moment, about securing the bolts on an aircraft engine. The right tools and techniques are paramount. In business, its the same. You need just the right business tools and know-how to be successful. This is a go-do-it book, not just more how to lessons. Its written by Kraig Kramers, an eight-time veteran CEO, who puts easy-to-use management tools directly in your hands to make more money and improve your individual success immediately. This book is about tools for tightening up the nuts and bolts in your business, tools to tune up performance with your customers, people, profits, productivity, and results -- plus tools for tuning up your own success as a manager.

A SYSTEM TO THINK, MANAGE AND LEAD LIKE A CEO Over 70 Tools to Drive Jump-Start, Quantum Leaps and Turnarounds Some companies seem to thrive naturally, attaining success after success. Others limp from one lackluster year to the next. What makes one company blossom while another wilts? CEO Tools 2.0 reveals the importance of making your business meaningful to yourself, your customers and your employees. You’ll discover how to better communicate your goals, execute your intentions and optimize your results. The end goal is a healthy, flourishing company that maximizes profits. This book offers through a series of simple but profound steps: • Set your company’s direction • Communicate with trust • Track metrics for insight • Anticipate (and create) the future • Attract and coach winning team members Filled with practical, actionable ideas and relevant case studies, this book builds upon and updates Kraig Kramers’s original CEO Tools. This powerful system enables you to make the most of your time and expertise—and become the CEO you were meant to be. JIM CANFIELD is the Managing Director of CEO Tools by Aprio. He is proud to have been selected to pick up what KRAIG KRAMERS started to author this new version of CEO Tools, to continue to build and improve the tools, and to work directly with companies looking to implement this powerful system. “Provides the tools for any CEO, owner or manager to create breakthrough results.” JACK CANFIELD, International Bestselling Author “Get the tools you need to build a better future for yourself, your people and your organization.” KEN BLANCHARD, International Bestselling Author “The tools featured in CEO Tools 2.0 offer a guide to measure metrics, assess performance and create a culture of ongoing improvement.” TONY HSIEH, New York Times Bestselling Author

Being a CEO “Chief Executive Officer” takes a great deal more effort and energy than just giving orders. You can't just tell an employee something and move on. You have to understand where they are coming from and their individual strengths, weaknesses, fears, and motivations. During the recent global recession, much attention was devoted to the mistakes that sparked the financial and economic crisis, in hopes of not repeating them. Less was given to what was done well amid the turmoil to learn, for example, how best to lead a company through tough times. None of the CEOs we interviewed in this book claimed to have attempted anything revolutionary. What was evident, however, was their resolve in pursuing the principles they thought were right, often in the face of opposition. Leadership becomes increasingly important in tough times, when so much is at risk but it can be even harder to exercise. The leadership “musts” described in this book has made the greatest difference for CEOs on the front line.

The instant New York Times bestseller. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. “A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.

Professional-level information empowering you with over 75 key strategic tools to ensure both short term and long-term success for your business and providing the full gamut of tools and techniques needed for you to create your own strategic plan. Following the footsteps of the hugely successful Key Management Models and Key Performance Indicators, this book delivers information in the practical and accessible framework synonymous with the Key series. Key Strategy Tools covers strategy tools and techniques within seven distinct areas: - Setting goals and objectives - Forecasting market demand - Gauging industry competition - Rating competitive position - Identifying strategic gaps - Bridging strategic gaps - Addressing risk and opportunity

The ultimate instruction manual for every new CEO The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual is essential reading for every CEO needing a blueprint for the role of CEO, including an overview of organizational structure, corporate strategy, management systems and finance. Along with considerable information about the financial systems needed for a modern corporation, with particular emphasis on funds management, going public, and dealing with investors, this important book explains how to select acquisition targets, price them appropriately, and successfully integrate them, as well as how to turn around a failing enterprise. Gives new CEOs a hard, quantitative view of the systems and techniques needed to run a company Discusses the CEO's place in the corporation Explores information technology strategy, tax strategy, outsourcing strategy and more Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual is destined to become the desktop companion you employ to be successful in your new position.