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Building Leaders Who Deliver by Hilla...
Building Leaders Who Deliver reveals why most leadership efforts fail—not because of people, but because of broken systems. This practical guide introduces a systems-based approach to leadership development, helping organizations and individuals create environments where leaders consistently produce results. Through clear insights and actionable frameworks, the book shows how to close the gap between strategy and execution.
MADARAKA: The Poor Shall Inherit the ...
This book provides a compelling examination of corporate-driven resource extraction on the African continent, which is marked by the exploitation of both people and the environment exclusively for the pursuit of profit for a few, with a specific focus on Kenya. The book meticulously reveals that the socioeconomic and environmental challenges posed by the extractive sector are not isolated incidents but part of a larger, systemic problem. This is underscored by the complex interplay between political economy, corporate globalization, odious debt, public policy, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law. The book concludes by enjoining the call for a world order in which Africa is not exporting its raw materials, but is the centre of global manufacturing, adding value to its own resources.
The Boy in Crisis: Restoring the Miss...
The Boy in Crisis: Restoring the Missing Pillar of Society
A Think Tank Solutions Oriented White Paper and Transformation Toolkit
Across the world and more visibly across Africa the modern boy is standing at a dangerous crossroads. Once seen as the protector, provider, and pillar of leadership, today’s boy is increasingly lost in a society that no longer defines or develops healthy masculinity. From rising school dropouts and addiction, to absent fatherhood and moral confusion, the boy crisis has silently become one of the most urgent threats to societal stability.
Think Tank Solutions Oriented presents this powerful white paper, “The Boy in Crisis: Restoring the Missing Pillar of Society,” as both a thought leadership report and a practical intervention guide.
It exposes the root causes of the crisis - broken family systems, weak mentorship structures, reactive education, and distorted societal values and proposes a transformative framework rooted in mindset renewal, preventive action, and collective responsibility. At its core, this publication demonstrates that when the boy loses direction, the man loses purpose and when the man loses purpose, society loses balance.
Additional Free Resources - Boy-In-Crisis-Think-Tank-Journal-Nov-25 and Boy In Crisis - Parents & Leadership Assessment Form
Building Big Business by Mwangura Mwa...
Big businesses are strategically created and engineered to attract huge amounts of money. In exchange for this money, they produce meaningful and wonderful services or products on a consistent basis that are commensurate to the large sums of money they attract. For far too long, African businesses have believed in the lie that it is ok to build small business that can only attract money that satisfies the basic and subsistence needs of the business owner. Whilst this is not entirely wrong in and of itself, the only problem is that small businesses never
achieve their fullest potential, and they never attract money in abundance. The result is that they lack the kind of capital that is required to produce high quality products or services. It is time for Africans to rise up and change their thinking into believing that they too have the God-given ability to engineer big businesses.
We must start to build a generation of entrepreneurs from a young age, one that sees risk as an opportunity and not something to be avoided. They must know and understand that to succeed, failure is inevitable - it is impossible to live life without failing at something. This generation must be convinced that failing to try out something new is failure by default. We must intentionally build a generation that understands that to succeed in building big business, one must embark on the long journey of self-development and never be satisfied with the status quo.
If we are going to build the African continent that will play at a global scale and positively influence the world, then we must have the right people to carry out this assignment. By reading Building Big Business, you too, can be one of the people.
MILESTONES IN MODERN STRATEGIC MANAGE...
Unlock the secrets to success in the the world of modern business with "Milestones in Modern Strategic Management" by Dr. Tom Ongesa Nyamboga (PhD.)
In this well detailed exploration of strategic management, the author illustrates the fundamental skills in management and their overall impact on organizational success. This is an exclusive guide to the groundbreaking ideas that have shaped strategic thinking, from the influential theories of Frederick Taylor and Peter Drucker to the emergence of disruptive innovation in the digital age.
The practical nature of the book allows you to intrigue your proactive mind with powerful descriptions, analyses, and strategies and learn from real world examples. This handy manual is very practical to the following people: seasoned executives, aspiring entrepreneurs, management students, and anyone else who values strategic thinking.
About the Author
Dr. Tom Ongesa is a distinguished scholar and practitioner in the field of strategic management, heralded for his profound expertise and extensive contributions to academia and professional practice. With a Ph.D. in Strategic Management, a Master's degree in Strategic Management, and a Bachelor of Education in Arts, alongside a Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management, Dr. Ongesa embodies a rare blend of academic rigor and practical acumen.
His professional career spans across both private and public universities, inside and outside Kenya, where he has served as a dedicated educator, mentor, and researcher. Dr. Ongesa's commitment to nurturing the next generation of strategic leaders is evident through his supervision of numerous successful research works at all levels, including postgraduate studies.
A prominent figure in the academic community, Dr. Ongesa is an active member of the Strategic Management Society, who is always engaged with the latest developments and trends in the field.
Real Growth Hacks by Festus Maina
Real Growth Hacks is the Best Practical Guidebook for Investment & Career Growth.
It uses tested strategies for growing low-performing careers and investments to high-performance and shows what works and what doesn’t.
With failure and success cases, it gives you practical working philosophies, financial capitalism secrets, deep work systems with social, emotional, and psychological guidelines from idea formulation, and preparation to psychological execution for real growth. Wicef highly recommends it.
You deserve this book and your need to gift a close friend struggling to practically grow their career and investments.
START YOUR UNIVERSITY JOURNEY WITH TH...
‘’For those going into university for the first time, these are your formative years; this book provides the basis upon which you can build a formidable foundation which will serve you well through college, but most importantly, when you graduate and embark on your professional life… This book is also of great value to parents of university students; to those counselling students as they prepare for their careers and for those in university administration… It is a book whose time has come, but also one that I wish had been published many years ago because it was greatly needed then, it is much needed now and will serve students well into the future; it is a book that’s timeless in its guidance and wisdom.’’
Foreword by Professor Chacha-Nyaigotti-Chacha.
The Winning Strategy by Dr Mary Mugo
One of the keys to organizational success is strategic positioning in the market in which the organization operates, with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. A fish will eventually die if it is out of the water and a bird thrown in water cannot fly, hence the need for any organization to understand the environment in which it operates, formulate winning strategies and achieve above-average returns.
This book systematically and practically explains the process of strategic planning from crafting mission, vision, and objectives to how an organization can analyze its internal and external environment and competitors. The book discusses how an organization can effectively formulate, implement, evaluate, and monitor its strategies. An organization that drifts through without any plan has no future and is likely to die or not earn above-average returns.
This is an easy-to-read book with relevant practical exercises at the end of every chapter to help the reader fully understand and apply the lessons learned. This book will help any organization to know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there because doing the wrong thing efficiently has no eventual benefit to the organization.
LOVE THE ORIGINAL YOU by Maria Waweru
Another Fabulous Year by Joyce Wakini
BOOK SUMMARY:
TITLE: ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR ; AUTHOR: WAKINI JOYCE
This book focuses on how to build and develop your TALENTS. It was written detailing out a journey of best practises supporting individual's personal goals. A pillar for your next level of greater self leadership.
It is also best practice for those who seek to start working on some new things such as; now harnessing their talents profitably with or without unemployment. Some have a new business idea or want to heed their life calling into ministry, philanthropic work etc. The topics discussed herein are pillars towards your next level of work and career time.
Last but not least, ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR is a manual that helps individuals map a way out of any kind of personal struggle. A pillar for setting up a new level of order from where they're right now.
Don't be surprised to find some activities for you to do in every chapter. Look out for them right at the start, for that's the beginning of the change.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS:
The writer has systematically elaborated 8 pillars which you can use to start working on your next level. The following are the HIGHLIGHTS of each chapter;-
√ WHY you need to draft your wish list
√ Mental CLARITY and decision making
√ How to plan and why you need to conduct RESEARCH about your dreams
√ Ways to become a DOER and finally..
√ Make a commitment to SERVE globally with your gifts and talents.
This book ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR will foster behaviour changes necessary for next level kind of performance. It shapes the character of its' readers way before they arrive on stage.
RECOMMENDATION:
What's behind the title ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR? Time! It sets readers of the book to work from a schedule. That is, tie a time target to the change you want to see. While a one year challenge is sufficient for some kind of work or is even too much, for other scopes of work more time could be needed.
CONCLUSION:
Best practice for our next level, leaving no one behind.
BLURB (Inside): "Stepping into the present of who you have decided to be this year in order to appreciate your life even more and build a legacy."
Joyce Wakini | Author | Best Practices > ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and...
Brief Summary
From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems using design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
The startups that Google Ventures invest in face big questions every day: Where’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your ideas look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution to a problem? Business owners and investors want their companies and the people who lead them to be equipped to answer these questions—and quickly. And now there’s a sure-fire way to solve their problems and test solutions: the sprint.
While working at Google, designer Jake Knapp created a unique problem-solving method that he coined a “design sprint”—a five-day process to help companies answer crucial questions. His ‘sprints’ were used on everything from Google Search to Chrome to Google X. When he moved to Google Ventures, he joined Braden Kowitz and John Zeratsky, both designers and partners there who worked on products like YouTube and Gmail. Together Knapp, Zeratsky, and Kowitz have run over 100 sprints with their portfolio companies. They’ve seen firsthand how sprints can overcome challenges in all kinds of companies: healthcare, fitness, finance, retailers, and more.
A practical guide to answering business questions, Sprint is a book for groups of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to non-profits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.
The Three Box Solution A Strategy for...
Brief Summary
How to Innovate and Execute
Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it?
Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”:
• Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability
• Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation
• Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses
The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.
Competing in the Age of AI Strategy a...
Brief Summary
AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning--to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions.
When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani:
Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms.
Packed with examples--including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors--and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.
Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the...
Brief Summary
Thousands of readers have found an exciting new vision for the second half of life in the bestselling book, Halftime. Bob Buford showed us that we aren't experiencing a midlife crisis that's winding us down to our retirement years, but a break in the game that can prepare us for the most exciting half of life.
In Game Plan, Buford gives you a practical way to move from success to significance and create an individual strategy that can get you where you want to be five . . . ten . . . twenty . . . thirty . . . or more years from now.
If you sense it's time for a positive change in your life, Game Plan gives you the tools to uncover your best self, aim for your highest dreams, and make your career and personal life more meaningful and fulfilling than ever.
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art ...
Brief Summary
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David translates this skill into a valuable methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of business. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
You will gain:
- CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be.
- STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room.
- GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad.
- SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values.
- INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage.
Value Proposition Design: How to Crea...
If you liked "Business Model Generation," you'll love "Value Proposition Design." The sequel builds on the same visual format and practical tools that made the first one so useful. It shows you how to use the Value Proposition Canvas, a practical business tool to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers want.
It compliments and perfectly integrates with the Business Model Canvas from "Business Model Generation" so you can succeed with great value propositions embedded in scalable and profitable business models.
Practical exercises, process illustrations, and workshop suggestions help you immediately apply the tools in the book to your daily work. The book includes an online access to Strategyzer.com to complete and assess exercises interactively, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more.
You'll love "Value Proposition Design" if you've been overwhelmed by the task of true customer value creation, frustrated by unproductive product meetings and misaligned teams, involved in bold shiny projects that blew up, or simply disappointed by the failure of a good idea.
"Value Proposition Design" will help you successfully understand the patterns of value creation, leverage the experience and skills of your team, avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work, and guide you through the design and test of products and services that customers want.
Author: Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Patricia Papadakos, Gregory Bernarda and Alan Smith
The Future of War A History by Lawren...
Brief Summary
In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink civilian merchant ships.
The future of war more often than not surprises us less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension but because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined wanting to cross.
As Lawrence Freedman shows, the future of war has a past and a present. Ideas of war, strategies for warfare and its practice, and organizing principles of war all have rich and varied origins which have shaped the minds of those who conceive the next war. Freedman shows how war can be studied systematically and empirically to provide a firm foundation for enlightened policy.
The Future of War—which covers civil wars to as yet unknown nuclear conflicts, proxy wars (real) to the Cold War (not), fashionably small wars to the War to End All Wars (it didn’t)—is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.