"Dynamic Business Planning Basics" is a guide to an effective business planning process that is appropriate for use in disruptive economic times such as ours. It is not meant to be a comprehensive treatise on business plans. Instead, it focuses on the planning PROCESS itself, not the written plan. It teaches a simple, 7-step planning methodology for building a strong business plan framework and then outlines an approach for using this methodology to create a "Living Business Plan." What is a living business plan? It is a dynamic but simple document customized for a particular business. It is...

RECESSION. UNEMPLOYMENT. FORECLOSURE. BANKRUPTCIES. There is no end in sight to the roller coaster of economic change. In other words, today, whether or not there is an official recession, economic "chaos" remains. This new reality, intensified by increasingly interconnected global economies, is unlikely to change, although the causes of the chaos may. Earthquakes, tsunamis, political uprisings, volatile oil prices, bankrupt nations are just a few examples of external forces that can and do start the tremors that produce giant waves of economic chaos. What are the consequences? Businesses...

"The Death of the Julia Division" is the devastating story of the destruction of the Italian Julia Division (an elite group of army alpine soldiers, once 10,000 strong) in the war against Greece in 1940. It has only been told in a piecemeal fashion, from personal recollections of those few survivors who much later narrated their experiences. Usually these stories are about the first phase of the campaign, which was a war of action and winning; while the second phase, substantially a war of defense and holding position that ended in defeat and death, is ignored or barely touched on. However,...

La Storia della Julia nella Campagna di Grecia e la storia drammatica della distruzione della divisione alpina durante la Guerra tra l'Italia e la Grecia del 1940. In precedenza questa storia e stata raccontata solo in modo frammentario dai ricordi personali dei pochi soldati sopravvissuti che narrarono le loro esperienze dopo molti anni. Normalmente queste narrative riguardano la prima fase della campagna di Grecia, durante la quale gli Italiani erano all'attacco e vincevano. Ma la seconda fase, ignorata o appena accennata, fu una guerra difensiva che si concluse con una sconfitta e con...

Few people realize that we are all in the midst of a revolution. No, it is not a political one, but a scientific and technological upheaval. As "Creating New Superstars" explains, today's exponentially increasing technological knowledge is changing the world around us at an ever faster pace. And as a result of this unprecedented wave of explosive technical advances; business, humanity, and technology have become irreversibly intertwined, leading to a new phenomenon - Superstar companies. Superstars are those select companies that are continuing to grow exponentially, even though they are...