Most Popular Books by Richard Koch

One Cross the Red Sea you have to leave the security of the status quo and summon up the will to change everything Two Form a Tribe get to know and appreciate your people and understand your business surroundings Three Visit Mount Sinai declare the Ten Commandments and define the new religion of your business Four Journey to the Promised Land with a group of zealous missionaries you must make the religion work and take time to explain the future your people will create Five Arrive in the Promised Land the tribe will know when you have arrived. Now is the time to ensure the religion will survive into the future

Behind every business hero lies a successful strategy. Behind every business failure lurks a bad strategy. Developing a good strategy is remarkably simple. Ye the subject has become obscured and over-complicated by academics and consultants with their own hobby-horses and proprietary methods. Strategy has become remote from those who need it most: owners and executives. "The Financial Times Guide to Strategy" offers more insight than a whole library of academic strategy tomes. It will help you construct a strategic framework for your company, business model, and marketplace. This second edition is fully updated, encompassing changes in the theory and practice of strategy and including commentary on the latest theories and theorists. Coverage includes: demonstrating the power of strategy to raise profits providing a DIY strategy kit for managers distilling strategic thinking since 1960 providing a lively A-Z of strategy concepts, terms, and techniques "Strategy has never been so simple, accessible, powerful, and practically directed to raise profits." -- Robin Field, Chief Executive, Filofax Group

EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS WITHOUT EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT. Richard Koch''s original bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE gave millions of highly effective businesspeople around the world a serious advantage in the pursuit of success. In 80/20 YOUR LIFE (previously published as Living the 80/20 Way) he shows how to use this powerful tool in all areas of your life. 80/20 YOUR LIFE shows how working out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give you those things, leads to increased happiness and greater success. When you read this book, you''ll discover why ''less is more'' isn''t just a saying, but a sure-fire method to achieve your goals and live your best life. 80/20 YOUR LIFE shows how working and worrying less can transform your personal life. ''Highly practical and full of examples... The trick is to apply ''less is more'' and ''more with less'' to ourselves, our work and our relationships'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ''This book is for anyone interested in succeeding personally as well as professionally. It uses a simple, concise, self-help approach to guide the reader through the different areas of life that can benefit from the 80/20 way of thinking'' PROFESSIONAL MANAGER

In this sequel to the bestselling The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch reveals how things really work - the universal, powerful patterns in nature, society, organizations and markets, the power laws - that can be applied successfully to life and business in the early 21st century.

Everyone knows that strategy is the cornerstone of any business. But very few people know how to make it work for them. What do smart people know about strategy that the rest of us don''t? And how can we learn from the best and apply the lessons for ourselves? Smart Strategy gives you everything you need to devise a great strategy and keep it on track. Watch your sales grow and your company take off! Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved, information-hungry business people everywhere!

Learn the time-tested secret of achieving more with less using the 80/20 Principle. Based on the counter-intuitive fact that 80% of results flow from 20% of causes, it is the guiding principle of highly effective people and organizations.

From the bestselling author of The 80/20 Principle, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort In The80/20 Daily, Richard Koch draws on insights from a life devoted to living the 80/20 way to create a day-by-day guide to successful living. Every day he shares insights and meditations on achieving success and cultivating intelligent laziness, themed by topic and covering all the big questions from happiness and self-belief, to relationships and money. As you go through the year, you''ll discover that in all these areas, very few inputs are decisive in delivering results, leaving you more time to get on with doing what you love. The 80/20 Daily is the first thing you''ll turn to when you wake up to discover new ways to become happier, better off, less stressed and more successful.

For the first time ever, large firms are losing out to smaller ones. The early 1990s panaceas like empowerment and reengineering are clearly incapable of stopping the rot. What has gone wrong with big business? And how do we put it right?The answer is not that small is beautiful - the problem is that large firms have become far too complicated. They are being strangled by their own management processes. Big business is not too big in terms of revenues, but it is too complex.It has for too many products, divisions and functions, and way too many managers, In this, the year''s most provocative business book, two highly experienced international business consultants argue that the root problem is management itself, and that the solution is to manage without management as a separate activity or set of jobs.The authors hail the emergence of a totally different type of 21st century supercorporation that will be truly global and expand into all parts of the economy. This supercorporation willbe quite unlike today''s companies, with no headquarters, standardized operations throughout the globe, and very simple structures. The supercorporation will be controlled by customers and information technology and not by managers."Managing Without Management might well be to business orthodoxy what Luther''s 95 theses were to the established religious hierarchy of Christendom. To the defenders of the old management faith, this is a truly radical, unsettling, and heretical document. Indeed all readers are advised to fasten their seatbelts before dipping into this complacency-shattering manifesto". -- James O''Toole, Vice-President, Aspen Institute"Makes many telling points...managing willchange from being a self-perpetuating job to being a value-added activity". -- Carol Kennedy

Running a business–any business–is a risky proposition. It often seems that we are being buffeted by random variables in the economy and the marketplace that are not only beyond our control, but impossible to foresee with any true certainty. But in the groundbreaking The Natural Laws of Business, businessman and entrepreneur Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle, reveals a unique and remarkably accurate way in which managers and executives can use fundamental principles of science to anticipate and dramatically improve their chances of success. From Newtonian physics and Mendelian genetics to cutting-edge chaos theories, science explains how and why the world–including the business world works the way it does. Now, Richard Koch provides fascinating, completely accessible explanations of key scientific and economic theories, including their history and development. Through real-life examples and practical instructions he shows us how to successfully incorporate these natural laws into daily business decisions. For instance, drawing on four centuries of scientific progress, Koch explains how Darwin’s theory of natural selection can become the key to enhancing a company’s competitive advantage; how Einstein’s theory of relativity can hold the secrets to improving time management; how the insights of evolutionary psychology can help managers improve their relationship with their employees; and how a Plague Theory formula can help predict the impact of technology or product innovation on your business. First published in the United Kingdom, where it has garnered praise from noted academics, critics, and business leaders, The Natural Laws of Business is a groundbreaking, highly insightful examination–for science lovers and business leaders alike--of the essential tools and techniques for analyzing and dealing successfully with the ever-changing business environment of the twenty-first century.

No longer are corporations and capital king. There''s a new way to create wealth that is better than the traditional route of managerial capitalism. Creative individuals are at the heart of the new revolution. In this book Koch shows how a new 21st century individualism is replacing capitalism and how individuals can create wealth and wellbeing.

Being a new boss is difficult. All bosses have to make their mark and have to learn how their team operates best. They need to satisfy difficult staff and customers, cope with encroaching competitors and deal with their own expectations, hopes, fears and self doubts. shows the new boss how to successfully lead their team for the first one hundred days. It guides you through the options and pitfalls that await you at each pursuit and helps you to reach your goals. important issues in ten-day chapters, each chapter includes a checklist to measure how things are going, describes how to advance your interests and that of your unit and company.

Networks rule the world. Take an organization of any kind: a corner shop, a new venture, a gang of drug traffickers, the United Nations, Google, the place you work. They are all networks, with their own rules and values and ways of communicating. Superconnect looks at how the successful and fortunate few behave - and shows that if you want to be one of them, you have to play by the network rules.

Interviews conducted by Charles B. Hosmer with 54 persons involved in American historic preservation (used in preparation for his book Preservation Comes of Age) and restoration in the United States. Among the topics discussed are the development of the National Park Service, Williamsburg, National Trust, and projects in California, Charleston, S.C., Illinois, Missouri, New Orleans, La., Newport, R. I., New York State, San Antonio, Tex., and Wisconsin. A 98 p. index to the transcripts is included.

That Americans are driven by wealth and the pursuit of material markers of financial achievement is anything but new. "We who are without kings"--As Arthur Miller famously termed Americans in "Tragedy and the Common Man" (1949)--have always granted de facto status of nobility to those with the means to show it off. However, this study harmonizes apparently dissonant American notes by dissecting the nation in order to establish a unified voice in Nineteen Twenties Fiction. By juxtaposing the canonical with the obscure, the seemingly conservative with the assumed liberal, the minority with the majority, and the South with the North, the true consistency and complexity of the American economic consciousness comes into greater light. Furthermore, although the Twenties presents a unique historical and literary moment for American writers, the decade ultimately showcases a phenomenon of economic obsession and discomfort that has only expanded and become more defined in contemporary American culture. The primary argument within "The Troubled Economic Consciousness" is that concerns over fiscal identity, labor, and materialism are so overwhelming in the American fiction of the Twenties that even many texts that seemingly share little with the subject of economy are actually engulfed by this overarching discussion. The chapters are organized along geographic delineations that highlight critical examples of the fiction arising in particular regions. The first chapter presents Nineteenth Century precursors to Modernism that evince a vague but perceptible awareness of the developing importance of labor to personal identity. Following this look back at the previous century, the next four chapters each involve a different physical region of Twenties fiction and include the South, the Midwest, the Harlem Renaissance, and expatriate writings. These disparate regions serve to collectively prove the assertion that a common thread of economic anxiety overwhelms literary discourse and cannot be removed from Twenties fiction. Finally, the conclusion asserts a context for the Modernist fiction of the Twenties that is ultimately consistent with the economic consciousness of contemporary American culture. Economic trepidations are ubiquitous in Twenties fiction, but in contemporary American culture, discussions and displays of wealth have become audacious and explicit.

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What is the perceived impact of implementing a diversity club in fostering a more supportive, inclusive environment at an outer-suburban senior high school? In order to investigate this question, I helped to create and advise an after school student-led diversity club. The intention of this club was to try to create a safe and welcoming environment where students could confront the challenges facing them at the school. Several students and teachers that were involved with the club completed an open ended survey to assess their perception of the school climate and the potential of the club to make a difference. The results of this survey suggested that the subjects believed the club could and/or already had made a difference in making the school more supportive and inclusive. The outcome of this capstone research demonstrates how a diversity club may have the potential to considerably impact the climate of a school.

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