How to Think Strategically : Upskilling for Impact and Powerful Strategy / Greg Githens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Githens, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Career development.

Leadership.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Business Expert Press, LLC, 2023.

Summary:

"Competent Strategic Thinking is Rare and Valuable. How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their business acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to "be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, clever, and powerful. It provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action. Through these examples, you'll gain useful lessons that can be applied in any organization and in your personal life. The Most-Important Tool of Strategy Is Found Between Your Ears! A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic. How to Think Strategically upskills you to: Internalize the 20 micro skills of strategic thinking. Distinguish strategic thinking from operational thinking and appropriately apply each. Pose high-quality questions that spark strategic insights. Write a concise one-page statement of strategy, with five essential concepts that will help you distinguish effective strategy from a list of goals. Improve conversations with stakeholders. Develop a courageous personal leadership style and a courageous perspective to address the real issues that are obstacles to your organization's success. Overcome the excuse of "I'm too busy to be strategic"". Anyone can improve their strategic thinking if they know where to focus their attention.".

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Description

Contents

Testimonials

List of Acronyms

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Nature, Purpose, and Scope of Strategic Thinking

Chapter 1: Are You Strategic?

Chapter 2: Cleverness

Chapter 3: Big Ideas

Chapter 4: Ben Franklin's Powerful Self-Development Technique

Chapter 5: Why Strategic Thinking Is Rare

Chapter 6: The Fuzzy Front End of Strategy

Chapter 7: Pockets of the Future

Chapter 8: Strategic Decisions

Chapter 9: The Spark of Insight

Part II: Personal and Interpersonal Mastery

Chapter 10: Perspective

Chapter 11: Shoulder Angels

Chapter 12: Dialogue and Deliberation

Chapter 13: Being an Extra-Ordinary Leader

Appendix A: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA)

Appendix B: Microskills of Strategic Thinking

Appendix C: Manifesto for Strategic Thinking

Notes

About the Author

Index

Adpage

Backcover.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781637425190

1637425198

OCLC:

1407284494