Useful resources
Here you'll find videos, interviews, articles and more that we'd like to share with you.
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INNOVATION VIDEO SERIES
If you're a small business owner looking to significantly improve your business and transform it to better prosper in the new and highly tumultuous era we're now in, check out our five-part video series on innovation. This will prove to be one of the most powerful tools in your business toolkit going forward.
Business builder toolbox videos
As part of the Business Builder Toolbox, Pivotal Momentum has been releasing several insightful advice videos on our Youtube Channel. From dealing with the 'New Normal' to how to capitalize on the unique advantages of being a small business.
The "Seven Secret Shifts" webinar
Here's a FREE hour-long webinar that CEO Kathryn Wood delivered on the Seven Secret Shifts to strengthen and grow your business. As part of the Business Builder Toolbox program, these webinars offer a chance for Kathryn to share her insight and interact with collaborators.
Here you'll find recommendations and reviews of some of the most useful books in business today. Curated by President and CEO Kathryn Wood.
scale - Geoffrey West (2017)
An illuminating look at what West uncovers as the “universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies and companies”. To say West is a lateral thinker is an understatement! A great read for anyone who loves data and statistics but as West himself says, “you don’t have to be a mathematician” to understand the lessons that emerge from the data. I found many ‘rules of thumb’ that I could use on behalf of clients and had done so several times within weeks of reading West’s analysis. Chapter 8 (Consequences and Predictions) is quite eye-opening. And you want to read West’s counterintuitive assessment of the most innovative communities and the future of cities.
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2014)
From the author of the Black Swan, this book expressly reviews ‘things that gain from disorder’ and is a strategic ‘next step’ forward from thinking only of risk management and resilience. Like Scale, this book is --- at least initially --- fairly dense, but also offers some very practical advice for policymakers and businesses, especially small ones. In fact, Taleb sees small businesses as being an extremely potent way for economies to become more ‘antifragile’. Ask me about that one!
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore (2014)
Like several other books on my bookshelf, this one is ostensibly written for the tech sector but the author notes that his marketing advice (born of long and sometime painful experience!) works for businesses in other sectors that are trying to market and sell ‘disruptive products to mainstream customers’. I found that Moore’s profiles of different market segments rang true for my clients and several gems from his work now inform my conversations with my clients (examples: the self-referential nature of mainstream customers and the need for ‘whole product solutions’ even if your specific product or service is just a part of it).
