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.

Getting started -- Why have a business plan? -- What's your purpose? -- Who's your audience? -- What information will you need? -- Anatomy of a business plan -- Cover page and table of contents -- Developing the table of contents -- Executive summary -- Formal executive summaries -- Executive...

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...

Pt. 1. The change problem and its solution. Transforming organizations : why firms fail -- Successful change and the force that drives it -- pt. 2. The eight-stage process. Establishing a sense of urgency -- Creating the guiding coalition -- Developing the guiding coalition -- Developing a...