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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...

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Mark Daly shares his secrets from years of successfully founding businesses and from strategically building other businesses. Mark is a great friend. He is also a brilliant strategist. Ten Treasures will help businesses be more profitable, and of special interest to me, achieve a healthier culture. Take a journey as told through Joseph and Elizabeth as they experience Mark's strategic playbook. --Dave Dillon, 3M, Hallmark, Union Pacific boards, Former CEO, Kroger Mark has been a long-time strategic confidant and mentor to me and our business over decades. Ten Treasures is truly the best of Mark, and his strategic frameworks that have been time-tested and successful for many great companies. The book is a straight-forward, practical guide to differentiating your company, both inside and out, to create a winning strategy in your market. Mark developed a playbook for senior managers, while wrapping it in a great story with incredible people, to help the audience really experience each treasure. A must read for entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders! --Lisa Jennings, President & CEO, PMC SMART Solutions One of the best business books I've ever read! All the major content of a graduate business course, but presented in an easy to read story. This is a must-read for any new manager or for an experienced manager who is looking to take their management experience to the next level. --Kevin Bright, Managing Director, Duke Energy I absolutely love this book! I look forward to seeing it as the best-selling business book on the NYT's best seller list. Thanks for bringing it to life. I found it easy to read, compelling, practical, and comprehensive. I am buying copies to hand out to all the leaders in our company with the first one going to my daughter (Katherine) as her strategic playbook for leading the company in the future. --Steve Steinman, Chairman & CEO, Sims-Lohman (Inc 5000) Love it! I'm going to follow it! --Lisa Pruett, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Downlite This is fantastic! Very original approach...the tone and passion are consistent throughout...inspired me to implement many of the concepts. --Alan Abram, CFO, Sur-Seal Corporation The intriguing Ten Treasures framework drew me in. I like the diversity of the sages, especially the lesser known ones, and how each of their stories links to a clearly laid out strategy in the playbook. Anyone interested in growing as a leader or sustaining a successful business will get insights and practical ideas they can put to use right away. --Joanne Spigner, Founding Partner, VisionFirst

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Mark has forty years of business experience and 125 years of board service in a variety of industries from the Inc. 500 to the Fortune 500 (dalystrategic.com). He wrote 5 Steps To Board Success! New Approaches to Board Effectiveness and Business Success, a book for mid-sized company boards. Mark is a graduate of Cornell University and Wharton (MBA). In addition to business wisdom, Mark has been blessed with several God-given talents. As an American impressionist painter, he has won major national art awards, is represented by prominent galleries, and is collected worldwide (markdaly.com). Mark plays the mandolin, composes original music, and is on a variety of recordings, including two solo albums. He is a Voting Member of the Grammys (mandomusic.com). These experiences help him to think and strategize in unique and creative ways so that businesses and people can achieve the success they want.

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