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Dr. Max Mckeown is the author of The Strategy Book, winner of the Commuter Read at the Chartered Management Institute Book of the Year 2013 and Amazon's Best Business Books of 2012. He is also author of The Innovation Book, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty, and four other books. He works as a strategic coach with Fortune 100 companies and is also a popular keynote speaker at conferences worldwide.
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2023.
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English
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Master the four disciplines of strategic fitness essential to executive performance In Strategic, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every business challenge they face. The book offers business leaders a proven framework--the Strategic Fitness System--containing dozens of tools, techniques, and checklists to...
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Plan to succeed as an entrepreneur--we show you how Business Plans For Dummies can guide you, as a new or aspiring business owner, through the process of creating a comprehensive, accurate, and useful business plan. In fact, it is just as appropriate for an already up-and running firm that realizes it's now time for a full-bore check-up, to ensure the business is in tip-top shape to meet the challenges of the globalized, digitized, and constantly...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
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1 online resource (7 pages)
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English
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Executives engaged in strategic planning tend to work with an implicit view of the future that is deeply embedded in their organization’s strategy as a set of unquestioned assumptions about the future business context. Leaders need to surface what the authors call ghost scenarios or risk implementing strategies that are ripe for disruption due to changes that planners haven’t recognized. The authors offer two case studies and suggest ways leaders...
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Pearson
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Third edition.
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1 online resource (352 pages)
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English
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A strategy is an essential tool in business. How do you know what you're doing without one? But what exactly is a good strategy? How do you get one? What are the options? Which are the key concepts and models you need to know about? In the third edition of this easy-to-read and logically structured guide, Richard Koch leads the reader through each critical step in creating, delivering and understanding successful strategy. Beginning at the level of...
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Info-line volume 0610
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ASTD Press
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©2006
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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English
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Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Second edition.
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1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Vaughan Evans has been a strategy consultant since the mid-1980s, working with a broad range of corporate clients, from small firms to global giants, and with over 50 financier clients, both structured lenders and private equity. For the last ten years he has been independent, specialising in business strategy, business planning and strategic due diligence. Vaughan is a graduate of Downing College, Cambridge and a Sloan Fellow with distinction of...
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Pearson
Pub. Date
2021
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Fifth edition.
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1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Richard Koch is an author and entrepreneur-investor. He not only writes books about how to achieve more, start new companies, make more money, and enjoy life more, but he also practises what he advocates. He was one of three founders of LEK, a noted international strategy consulting firm; and for the past thirty-seven years has invested in new and fast-growth companies, and compounded his money at an annual rate of twenty-two percent. By his own reckoning,...
11) Agile Strategy
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Pearson Education, Limited
Pub. Date
2019
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1 online resource (258 pages)
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English
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Ralph Fernando is a business leader, consultant and writer. He draws together strategy, operations and technology experience earned on an international stage, where he focuses on value creation in private, public and voluntary organisations. Ralph recognises that the boundaries between functional disciplines are far blurrier in real life than many would have you believe, and that true agility lies in how they interact. He is driven by the need to...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2018.
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10th edition.
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1 online resource (672 pages)
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English
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Now in its tenth edition, Contemporary Strategy Analysis continues its tradition of accessibility, practicality, and real-world relevance to graduate and undergraduate students around the world. Focusing on strategic analysis, value creation, and implementation, this book provides a rigorous grounding in essential principles while offering up-to-date perspectives based on practices used at leading companies across industries and borders. Comprehensive...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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English
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"Leaders are no strangers to challenge. Over the last few years leaders have experienced unprecedented layoffs, dismal sales, dwindling retirement accounts, and the bankruptcy of once-heralded institutions. They've been threatened by sequestration, the possibility of a government shutdown, and the messy transition to a new healthcare mandate. Trust in leaders has plummeted, engagement scores are stuck in neutral or worse, and any recovery seems tepid...
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Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First edition].
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1 online resource (1 audio file (9 hr., 17 min.))
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English
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Is your company spending too much time on strategy development-with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
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1 online resource (1 sound file (4 hr., 8 min.))
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English
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"No pre-pandemic strategy is effective anymore. Alan Weiss has developed an original, new approach to strategy which thus far has certified over 100 people globally, delivering this approach to scores of firms of all types in four countries. Sentient Strategy is based on two modern dimensions: awareness of the environment in which the organization exists and has influence, and consciousness of the impact of actions being considered. The old SWOT (strengths,...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st edition
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1 online resource (194 pages)
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English
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An organization's ability to achieve strategic goals through programs and supporting projects depends on its ability to establish a future vision, set strategic goals, select the most valuable projects, and then execute flawlessly. Organizational strategic alignment is achieved by converting strategic plans and goals into a valuable portfolio of programs and supporting projects. Strategic project leaders and project teams execute the project plans...
19) The strategy workout: the 10 tried-and-tested steps that will build your strategic thinking skills
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Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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The Strategy Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
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1 online resource (7 pages)
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English
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Black hat workshops are a type of competitive insight workshop that can help organizations model how competitors might behave in a particular scenario. The author describes how these sessions can help teams simulate the outcomes of decisions and situations their company will face in the real world through role-playing exercises. He also offers a step-by-step guide to conducting black hat workshops to better anticipate competitors’ next moves and...
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