Strategic thinking : a comprehensive guide / Frederick Betz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Betz, Frederick, 1937- author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Business planning.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2016.

Summary:

"By using actual histories of business successes and failures to illustrate theoretical concepts in strategic thinking, this book provides a fully comprehensive and practical view of the issues and current debates in leadership strategic thinking. Leadership and strategy are intricately connected--it is a crucial responsibility of any leader to formulate strategy, and in an organization, only the leader has the power to implement strategic change. Strategic thinking requires both idealism and realism--to imagine a better world, and to acquire the resources, skills and organization to get there. However, most organizations focus on short-term thinking for their employees and leave long-term strategy to the executives. But no high-level executive in any organization has full scope of operations--thus, for realistic strategy, there is a need for good top-down and bottom-up communication. When organizational communication is only top-down, high-level strategy can become only wishful thinking by the CEO."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Strategic vision

Strategic venture

Strategic management

Strategy theory

Strategic business model

Diversification strategy

Strategy scenarios

Change in societies

Strategic dishonor

Strategic planning.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

OCLC:

973932899