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Start with WHY

START WITH WHY

In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY

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Forecast Revenue from Your Monthly Backlog

Forecast Revenue from Your Monthly Backlog

As someone who values business decisions based on hard data, I have long mined my backlog data to determine how I can use it to predict profit in a period.   In a project-driven integration business, if you can accurately forecast revenue, you can also accurately predict that period’s net

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The Goal

The Goal

One of Eli Goldratt’s convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. A good definition of a goal is one that sets us on a path of ongoing improvement. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel,

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Multipliers

Multipliers

Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation. We have all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and

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Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

For many years, The Lean Startup has been a favorite book of our podcast guest for Navigate Academy Module 11, Brian James, Director of Sales and Engineering at Neurilink. The chapters on testing are particularly relevant for this new time and age we are living through. Are there small, lightweight

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The Age of the Customer

The Age of the Customer

This has never happened before. You are operating your business in a time when something is happening that is so momentous it has never happened before. Jim Blasingame identifies it as an epochal marketplace shift that’s causing the 10,000-year-old Age of the Seller to be replaced by the Age of

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Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business

Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business

Ram Charan is a prolific business writer, and we like his books because they are all very practical and usable. As you think about how to grow revenue, Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business has some wonderful insights about how you should go about that, versus just adding sales numbers to

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Lean Thinking

Lean Thinking

Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic describes a business system for the twenty-first century that is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with value-based strategies to produce steady growth through a wide range of economic conditions. The firms profiled in Lean

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How Good People Make Tough Choices

How Good People Make Tough Choices

This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions. “A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.” —Jimmy Carter This book was formative for Brad Malone as he grew his department from 3 to 300 people – and

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One Minute Manager

The One Minute Manager

As an industry, Navigate believes we need to focus on growing that next generation of leadership and management. Many integrators are having a hard time finding and retaining talent, for many roles ranging from technicians and engineers, to project managers. This is, in part, because we are not growing them

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