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Are you overwhelmed by intellectual noise—news, reports and social media—and just want the distilled strategy insights that most of your peers may not possess? Over the past 10 years on StrategyTraining.com and FIRMSconsulting.com, you have seen us help numerous clients solve complex business problems: developing a big data strategy, a digital & IT strategy, a pandemic & disaster strategy, a luxury brands strategy, a corporate strategy & transformation program, and much more. You have seen us use strategy tools, engagement management best practices, strategy maps, client management tools and more, summarizing the best practices from the ex-McKinsey, BCG et al., partners who produce the training programs on our platforms, and from our most successful clients, to help you solve mankind’s most pressing problems. We bring that level of thinking to our weekly insights shared in this series. Every Monday morning at 8 a.m., we send out a note and podcast to our members, offering powerful bite-sized insights from the 4-5 major business topics of the week. We don’t focus on the news or trends. We focus on the implications and how our readers and their organizations should think about these events to gain a competitive advantage in the world. Our readers consider these insights crucial to start their week strong and help move their careers forward. “I want to say thank you for putting this week’s Monday Morning 8 a.m. together. It’s very profound and has saved me from making some important decisions out of fear.” – Claire This book contains the edited version of those Monday morning insights. Our readers found it so valuable that they wanted it published in a book format for easy reference. Here it is. This book will make you a deeper thinker, a better professional and a more valued member of your organization. If you pay attention and take action, it could change your career—and your life. Most members have had to work their way through all the notes week by week. Now, it is all in one place, containing timeless lessons on strategy, leadership, competition, business and risk. Our insights help our readers step out of the noise and focus on questions like: What is the unique advantage I am developing? What is the unique insight that I can uncover in my industry/space that most others are not seeing? What are the strategy implications? What am I missing in a business trend? How do I compete? Where do I compete? How do I reach my highest potential? How do the highest-performing professionals manage their careers? How do I lead my team to maximize the results we deliver? The insights are summarized in an easy-to-read format. It would take you many hours of listening to get the same material you will get in this book. And it could very well be the information you need to achieve the results you most need and desire now. Get it, read it and take action. Be part of our movement to solve mankind’s toughest problems. Since our Monday Morning 8 a.m. insights go out weekly, we will periodically update this book with the latest insights, subject to Amazon's terms and conditions. Although we make these insights available to everyone, it is developed for our most loyal members, FIRMSconsulting Insiders and SLIDES members. At times you will see references to additional resources that our most loyal members have access to should they need to dive deeper into a specific topic (e.g., competitive strategy, digital & IT strategy, implementation, problem-solving, etc.).