Personal Strategy

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.

A business's overall strategy may be set at board level, but many people throughout the organisation will be involved in deciding that strategy and implementing it - making decisions that are strategic in nature. On these decisions hangs the future of the business: how successful it is, even whether it is successful. Yet business history is full of strategic decisions, both big and small, that were weak, poorly conceived and consequently disastrous.

Your Energy Is the Strategy is a practical guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed, distracted, or mentally exhausted by modern life. In a world that constantly demands more attention, more productivity, and more availability, burnout has become the norm. This book offers a different approach. Instead of pushing harder, you’ll learn how to protect your energy, reduce unnecessary mental drain, and focus on what truly matters.

The global financial crisis that erupted in 2008 exposed the flaws in many investment strategies. This book explores the controversies that surround the management of wealth and provides guidance on how to construct investment strategies that are appropriate for each investor. With its detailed analysis, supported by data and anecdotes, it is above all a practical guide. It shows how the insights of behavioural analysis are widely reflected in investor behaviour, while emphasising the importance of basing investment strategy on the principles of traditional finance.

Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, martial artist, student, or simply seeking practical wisdom, this Complete Strategy Collection delivers powerful insights into leadership, competition, and self-mastery—timeless tools for victory in any field.

Discover the Japanese secret to unlocking your purpose, productivity, and passion in life!

Are you worried that subtle manipulation is shaping your decisions, your relationships, and even your sense of self without you realizing it? The Psychology of Dark Manipulation: Recognizing Control Tactics and Taking Back Your Power gives you a clear, practical roadmap for identifying how manipulators think, the tactics they use, and the warning signs you need to watch for in everyday life.

In 17th century Japan, a masterless samurai with nothing but his sword and unwavering resolve defeated over sixty opponents in life-or-death duels. He died undefeated.

You know the rules. You’ve played real games. Now it’s time to stop guessing — and start thinking like a stronger chess player. Chess Strategy Made Easy for Intermediate Players is a practical, no-fluff guide for players who want to improve their tactics, understand positions faster, avoid common blunders, and turn close games into confident wins.

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* Think differently and find the courage to challenge the status quo with this mindset-shifting guide to meaningful change. For most of our lives, we are encouraged to trudge along the well-worn paths of those who have come before us. We learn the rules – in our...

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips.

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J. Echevarria II highlights the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, he discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated throughout.

The Strategy of No Strategy is your guide to profound clarity, lasting impact, and deep ease, not through exhausting effort, but through strategic stillness. Rooted in the timeless wisdom of Laozi’s Tao Te Ching and the living rhythm of modern Taoism, this transformative book by bestselling author ShaoLan reveals how mindfulness, precise timing, invisible preparation, and quiet awareness help you lead with authentic power and live with calm, unshakable confidence.

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a "total" view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers - notably the United States, China, Britain, and Russia - in the wider context of their competition and their domestic and international strengths. 

Setting business strategy enables you to develop absolute clarity on priorities, organize resources, and get better results than ever before. It may sound complicated, but Brian Tracy knows how to make it simple. In this practical audiobook, he shares the most important lessons for strategic planning.

One of the most important steps towards being independent is financial independence. This means you are in total control of your expenses and the money you make. Money is crucial when it comes to living well in the community, but you don’t need too much money to become independent, happy, or even successful. You merely need to know how to control your expenses and manage the money you have, so that it can work for you.

Picture this: You wake up, grab your phone, and open Instagram, tap the plus icon at the bottom of the screen, select a photo, add a filter and a caption, tap "publish", and you call it a day. Thirty minutes later, you get a notification from PayPal: "Someone sent you $500". Would you like your average "workday" to look like this? See, contrary to what you believe, you don’t need to be an artist, a comedian, or a particularly attractive individual to get paid on Instagram.

If you’ve spent hours running GTO sims only to realize your strategy still feels fragmented—or worse, robotic—you’re not alone. Many serious poker players eventually hit a wall where solver work stops giving them the complete picture. That’s where The Exploitative Edge comes in. This book isn’t another dense solver dump. Instead, it gives you a cohesive, practical framework for exploitative poker strategy—helping you bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world execution.

Warren Buffett is one of the best investors of all time. But what is his strategy? Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy breaks down Buffett’s two-step strategy and compiles his best investing principles, so that you can replicate his strategy when you invest in stocks. Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy will teach you when Buffett buys and sells, what he looks for when researching a stock, and the biggest mistakes that beginners make when trying to replicate his strategy.

Richard Medcalf, an advisor to some of the world’s most accomplished CEOs, reveals the secrets to becoming a more strategic leader, and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus. Making TIME for Strategy will radically change how you think about your path to leadership impact, and give you practical tools to move you away from incremental progress and closer to breakthrough results.