The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire!


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A radical new leadership strategy to transform business as we know it—from a dream team of INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan The business landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies that crashed and burned when an apocalypse came—in the shape of new competitive technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, and new world orders. Who can feel safe in firestorm change? The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don’t advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground—throwing yourself into a firestorm change—and turning the upheaval to your organization’s advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever. Written with a sense of urgency and purposefully radical provocation, The Phoenix Encounter Method represents the forward thinking of legendary business guru Ram Charan and professors from the senior global leadership program of INSEAD, one of the world’s top graduate business schools. The resulting methodology, based on analysis of thousands of articles, studies, reports, and academic and business practice, was field tested in real-life Phoenix Encounters conducted with more than fifteen hundred senior executives—from startups and family businesses to legacy companies—representing a broad range of industry and sectors in both developed and developing economies. Whatever your sector or industry, if you’re responsible for your organization’s ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you’ll appreciate the dramatic impact The Phoenix Encounter Method will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.







Feral Sins


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When female wolf shifter Taryn Warner first encounters Trey Coleman, an alpha male wolf shifter with a dangerous reputation, she's determined to resist his charms. But Taryn finds herself drawn in by Trey's forceful demeanor and arctic-blue eyes, and she eventually agrees to enter an uneasy alliance with him. If the two succeed in convincing their respective packs that they've chosen each other as mates, Trey will win valuable political allies, while Taryn will escape an odious arranged mating. Will they be able to maintain the clear heads needed to pull off the deception?




Legend of the Phoenix


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Join Mica as he must go to the aid of the dragon people. See as he must destroy a strange comet with an asteriod close beside it. See as he must also help find a cure for the radiation that the strange pair leave behind on their first encounter with the world of the dragons. Come as see as he helps bring truth to a problem that has seperated two peoles who shared the same world.




Hearings


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The Phoenix Encounter Power Pack


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From a dream team of business leadership experts—including INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan—this Power Pack helps transform any business in our unprecedented times of change Advanced technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, new world orders, and a global pandemic have put many businesses out of business. CEOs and managers can spin their wheels trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t—or they can take the “phoenix” approach. Based on reams of research into effective leadership during times of disruption and crisis, The Phoenix Encounter Method provides a radical new leadership strategic thinking approach to transform business as we know it. Then, the companion to this breakthrough work, The Phoenix Encounter Method Implementation Guide walks readers through the process steps of executing this leadership method throughout their organization in a practical, hands-on way. This Power Pack makes both books available to corporate leaders, academics, consultants and executive trainers at a discounted price. The main book asks business leaders to imagine burning their business to the ground, throwing themselves into a “firestorm of change,” and turning upheaval into advantage. The implementation guide then walks readers through the process of executing the action steps this leadership method needs throughout their organization in a practical, hands-on way. With both books, readers will learn that they can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes—stronger than ever.




Wicked Cravings


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For years, wolf shifter Jaime Farrow has harbored a not-so-secret crush on gorgeous Dante Garcea. But the time has come for Jaime to face facts: despite her best efforts, Dante just isn't interested. And that's probably for the best. The last thing Jaime needs is for anyone--particularly Dante--to find out about her little "problem"--The one that haunts her past and threatens to destroy her and everyone she loves ... As the pack Beta, workaholic Dante Garcea is responsible for the protection and safety of his entire pack and doesn't have time for distractions--especially the kind promised by Jaime Farrow. It's all he can do to keep her at arm's length and his own desire at bay. Yet when her flirtations abruptly end, Dante becomes suspicious. If a wolf is hiding something that could endanger the others, it's his business to know about it. And she is hiding something, something big, and unless he can convince her to trust him, their entire pack could be in danger. But after years of keeping her--and his desire--at arm's length, he is forced to confront the danger she poses to their pack ... and the passion smoldering between them. He knows hot-headed Jaime will resist him ... but Dante never takes no for an answer.--




Army


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The Cold Start Problem


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A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users. Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of “the network effect,” where a product or service’s value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they’re messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling products to break through, attracting new users through viral growth and word of mouth. Yet most entrepreneurs lack the vocabulary and context to describe them—much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the effect. What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest to offer unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries. The Cold Start Problem reveals what makes winning networks thrive, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and, most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are vitally important today.