Ten Treasures Strategic Playbook focuses on ten important areas for improvement where businesses and organizations underperform. It provides you with an indispensable map or strategic playbook to solve and prevent these costly problems from occurring in the future. It guides you through ten proven, integrated paths to sustained success. The improvement areas are covered in ten chapters called treasures. You experience and learn the main lesson of each treasure through intimate visits with wise sages at crucial moments in their lives. Ten Treasures is written for leadership and management teams, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and family businesses. It will help you: o Achieve goals, and venture into new possibilities that you previously thought were impossible. o Consistently win by separating yourself from competition and playing your own higher-level business game. o Create unprecedented heights of customer delight, employee happiness, and professional advancement. o Build a lasting legacy. o Add value to and change our world for the better. The Strategic Playbook provides you with: 1) Leadership techniques (dream-statement, TRUE Goal) that define a more remarkable and vivid future (Martin Luther King Jr.); 2.) Innovation strategies that transform ideas into distinct competitive advantages (Steve Jobs); 3) Proven processes to recruit, retain, and sustain the right top talent (Coach John Wooden); 4) Breakthrough methods (value chain breakthroughs) that reduce costs and advance operational excellence (Henry Ford); 5) 80/20 priorities (Elevate the Elephants) that provide more time and less waste (Vilfredo Pareto); 6) Powerful ways to manage and accelerate the pace of growth and move projects forward (Genghis Khan); 7) Unique positioning concepts that sell and earn more profit (Giotto di Bondone): 8) Platinum Standard leadership principles to create a healthier culture (Eleanor Roosevelt); 9) Methods to simplify/remove unhealthy barriers, complexity, and frustration (Alexander Calder) and; 10) Time-tested intentional improvement tools to ensure sustained success (Marie Curie). The Strategic Playbook offers unique tools and new leadership techniques. These include the CURVE, dream-statement, TRUE goal, gravity-shifts, 3-Keys-Strategy, value chain breakthroughs, 5 Steps to Successful Succession, Yes, No, & Gray Zones, TEAMS2 guidelines, and the Platinum Standard, among others. The Strategic Playbook also leverages important time-tested concepts including 80/20, Lean, OKRs, continuous improvement...