The essential evolution: personnel, human resources, talentship -- What is a decision science applied to talent? -- The HC bridge framework: pivot-points in impact, effectiveness, and efficiency -- Impact: finding the strategy pivot-points -- Impact: linking strategic pivot-points to...

The hardball manifesto -- Unleash massive and overwhelming force -- Exploit anomalies -- Threaten your competitor's profit sanctuaries -- Take it and make it your own -- Entice your competitor into retreat -- Break compromises -- Hardball M&A -- Changes in the field of play -- The hardball mindset.

Resolving the tension between theories E and O of change / Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria -- Purpose of change. Value maximization and the corporate objective function / Michael C. Jensen -- The puzzles and paradoxes of how living companies create wealth: why single-valued objective functions are...