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Yoast helps you with your website optimization, whether it be through our widely used SEO software or our online SEO courses: we're here to help.

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The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.

The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

  • Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
  • The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
  • A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
  • The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”

Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

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Circle is the world’s leading all-in-one branded community platform. Circle enables you to bring together your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand. CIrcle customers range from creator-led communities like Ali Abdaal’s Productivity Club, Dr. Becky’s GoodInside, and Jay Shetty’s Coaching Program, to organizational communities like Harvard’s CrimsonConnect, SpaceX’s Starbase community, The RSA’s Circle, and Oprah’s Daily Inside club.

Join 13,000 community builders on Circle to:

  • Build a dedicated home for your community with full control and ownership.
  • Engage your audience through events, courses, email and gamification.
  • Monetize with paid memberships, gated content, and recurring subscriptions.
  • Scale your business with automations, AI tools, and fully branded mobile apps.

Circle Plus is a premium solution that offers fully branded mobile apps for iOS and Android, designed to help community businesses stand out in the app stores and earn more revenue. The service includes a fully done-for-you app, world-class design support, hassle-free migrations, and much, much more.

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Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.

David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see.

Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

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Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.

  • Explains how to leverage the power of a 12-week year to drive improved results in any area of your life
  • Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness
  • Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation

Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

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This guide helps you understand the impact that hiring a virtual assistant can have on your organization.

Learn the following:

  • How Gresham Harkless used virtual assistants to grow Blue 16 Media and CBNation
  • 100+ ways you can use a virtual assistant (VA)
  • 16 best practices for hiring a virtual assistant
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Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

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Join 35M+ people using Linktree for their link in bio. One link to help you share everything you create, curate and sell from your Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and other social media profiles.

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This 16 page coloring book is for CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners to relax and harness their creativity.

This collaborative book features inspiration Each page of the book features the following brands--I AM ColoringBlue 16 MediaI AM CEOStill Work 2 DoLeash Talk, DR1VEN Brand and more.

Studies have shown that adult coloring can reduce stress, increase motor skills, improve sleep, improve focus and help with relaxation. With the disruption and change happening in our world, we hope this is something that helps you stay peaceful and healthy mentally and emotionally. 

Also includes a pack with 4 crayons. 

Get the electronic version at CBNation and Iamcoloring.com

Get the physical version at Dr1ven.co and Iamcoloring.com

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