Forecasting & Strategic Planning

A new fundamental economic shift is emerging: an economy based on transformative experiences that guide people to change, achieve their aspirations, and become who they want to be. Welcome to the Transformation Economy. Creating transformative experiences offers businesses the largest opportunity for creating economic value today, particularly as goods and services become increasingly commoditized. Enterprises can create no greater value than to help customers achieve their aspirations—whether improving health, increasing wealth, developing wisdom, or finding purpose.

Companies like Dropbox, Zoom, Slack, Atlassian, and DocuSign grew into multibillion-dollar companies using the three-step "Freemium" product strategy: (1) instead of hiring an expensive sales force, give away software for free; (2) let happy users tell others; (3) offer a premium subscription version, producing a recurring revenue stream. Over the last three decades, Freemium strategy has evolved into a practice known to tech industry insiders as "product-led growth."

Driving innovation in large organizations is as engaging and thrilling as a heist movie. Are you ready to embark on the adventure of transforming your ideas into impactful realities? In The Inside Job, Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers just that: a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.

Strategy for Real Estate Companies: The Nine Essential Pillars of Success for Developers, Builders, and Investors.

In Leading with Aliveness, Mette Norgaard offers a physiological and philosophical reframing of leadership amid continuous crisis and burnout—a way to reclaim steadiness and humanity in the face of unrelenting change. This transformation unfolds through five elemental forces: the powers of the pause, perspective, practice, the pride, and play. When leading with aliveness, you open to the life force—your source of vitality—then shape your perspective and point the way. You awaken the team's capacity for optimal performance and serious play.

In Inspired 2 Serve: Developing a Culture of Servant Leadership, Bruce Sneary shows how the most effective leaders build organizations rooted in trust, empathy, and accountability. Through practical frameworks and real-world insights, this book reveals how servant leadership unlocks team engagement, strengthens performance, and transforms workplace culture from the inside out.

What’s Keeping Your Company from Reaching the Next Level? You’ve mastered the basics of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Your leadership team is aligned, the vision is clear, and you’re gaining traction. Now comes the real challenge: rolling out your vision and EOS company-wide. To get what you want from your business, you must take EOS beyond the leadership team and equip everyone in the organization with the tools they need to help you achieve the vision.

If growth feels like it’s breaking your business, you’re not alone. That struggle shows up in the data, too. Nearly 82 percent of small businesses that fail blame cash flow issues. What most don’t realize is that cash flow problems are usually systems problems in disguise. Stop Growing Broke, Start Growing Profits is the systems-first playbook for overwhelmed CEOs and business owners who want growth that’s profitable, sustainable, and doesn’t depend on duct-tape fixes or 80-hour work weeks.

In 1944, the OSS created a field manual teaching ordinary citizens how to disrupt enemy operations through simple, untraceable acts. When declassified in 2008, business consultants made a startling discovery: these "sabotage" techniques perfectly described toxic workplace behaviors.

The Business Transition and Succession Blueprint is a business book that aims to help business owners gain the awareness and direction to realize how to build a business with transferable value! This is strategic business planning.