Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today. Unstoppable shows these managers how to look deep within their organizations...

Whether you call it "harvesting intangible assets" or "intellectual property management," organizations must make the most of everything they have to remain competitive and experience continual growth. In this thought-provoking book, author Andrew J. Sherman shares insights and expertise gleaned from his work with some of the world's leading companies who have capitalized on intellectual assets such as patents, trademarks, customer information, software...

All companies, no matter what industry they are in, or what product or service they create, do four basic things. Offer something for sale, sell it, collect money for it, and create content about what they do. Product development, Marketing, Sales, and Finance are all essential to the organization and are typically managed at the VP or CXO level, yet a company's content, which contains all of its intellectual property, is often overlooked. The Content...

Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client in need of detective services, especially when that client is the most notorious woman in Atlanta. Whitney Albright Dobbs is a wealthy socialite who, while under the influence, killed a young black girl in a hit and run. Callahan is not keen on tracking down Whitney's soon-to-be ex-husband's assets. But it only takes a glance to see that...

The must-read summary of Chris Zook's book: "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Future Growth". This complete summary of the ideas from Chris Zook's book "Unstoppable" shows that, sooner or later, every company tends to reach a point at which its historical rate of growth flattens out. When you reach this junction, you have to decide whether or not to move to a new and different core business. In his book, the author explains...

A huge leak reveals hidden assets and deals of the wealthy and powerful. FRONTLINE and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists examine secret finance overseas and in the U.S. Also, with Retro Report, explore the legacy of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador.

Not just another day at the office … or is it? -The surgical technician ducks as a stapler flies past his head during the concluding moments of a lengthy and difficult operation…. -The high-powered, internationally known finance guru seeks to turn fortunes around at the university of which he is now president … and finds himself a leader without followers…. -The powerful satraps silently sabotage the CEO's desperately needed growth initiative.… These...

Marriage can be murder. Kay's first real case as a licensed investigator is to track down a suspected mistress and the possible hidden assets of an estranged husband. It all seems pretty routine, but when the financial trail leads Kay down a rabbit hole of laundered money and bank fraud, a boring divorce case gets interesting. Just as Kay closes in on what seems to be the white collar crime of the century, the husband drops dead in his morning coffee-coffee...

Whether you are an entrepreneur, an employee or a seasoned business owner, the way customers engage with you has totally changed. Therefore, a company's brand worthiness is up to every single person connected with the brand. This book transforms the traditional notions of a business that backs a product or an employee who is backed by a company. Instead, it offers transitional ideas and suggestions that realign the business, the business professional...

Could your business be worth 5X more? The Fortune 500 know the secret. The largest companies in your industry do, too. Your competition may also be leveraging it. So why aren't you? The number one multiplier effect of any business is Intellectual Property-patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, servicemarks, and the people who create all of them. In most businesses, the most valuable asset-employees who make things and solve problems-walk...