Thinking strategically is what separates managers and leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies.
The Strategy Book answers the following questions:
- What do we know about strategy?
- What can strategy do for you?
- How can you effectively use strategy tools?
- How can you engage people with strategy?
- How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and screw-ups?
Using the science of strategy, The Strategy Book will help you tackle the really important challenges you face both in developing strategies and putting them into action. Its aim is to give you best ideas wrapped up in a usable, enjoyable package.
The Strategy Book: How to think and act strategically to deliver outstanding results| Max Mckeown (Author)| FT Publishing International
Table of Contents
Introduction
What is strategy?
Part 1. Your strategic self
Shaping the future, Thinking before you plan, Becoming a strategic thinker, Selling your strategy.
Part 2. Thinking like a strategist
Reacting is as important as planning, Taking risks (jump your uncertainty gaps), Looking over your shoulder, Knowing where the grass (really) is greener.
Part 3. Creating your strategy
“Seeing the big picture?”, Finding position, intention and direction, Looking for advantages, Making strategic decisions and choices, Adapting to your competitive environment.
Part 4. Winning with strategy
Winning strategy games, Creating new markets, Getting ahead of your strategic group, Growing your business (again and again), Going global without going broke, Knowing what you can do best.
Part 5. Making your strategy work
Managing your strategy process, Meetings for strategic minds, Managing change, making strategy work, Understanding what can go wrong, Saving your company from failure.
Part 6. The Strategy Book toolkit
The basic (powerful) strategy questions, SWOT analysis, Porter’s 5 forces of competition, Porter’s generic strategies, Burgelman’s strategy dynamics model, Porter’s value chain and value system, Core competencies and resource-based view, Nonaka and Takeuchi’s knowledge spiral, Peters, Athos and Waterman’s 7-S framework, Scenario planning, Ansoff’s growth grid, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) growth share matrix, Kim and Mauborgne’s four actions, Greiner’s growth (and crisis) model, De Wit and Meyer’s strategy tensions, Cummings and Wilson: orientation and animation, Lewin’s force field analysis, Kotter’s eight phases of change, Kaplan and Norton’s balanced scorecard, Hrebiniak’s model of strategy execution, Hammer and Champy’s business process redesign, Michaud and Thoenig’s strategic orientation, Burgelman and Grove’s strategy bet model, Argyris’s double and single loop learning, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent strategy, Johnson’s white space model, Prahalad and Hart’s bottom of the pyramid, Stacey’s strategy from complexity, Hart’s sustainability value framework, House of strategy, Innovation + strategy = adaptability.
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