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The Power of Strategic Thinking
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By
Stuart Wells, From Sage to Artisan
Description
Strategy requires an ability to conceive the future, see and create possibilities, and focus to choose a direction. Successful strategy
is a mental discipline consisting of broad ranging, flexible, and creative thinking. Choosing the Future will help you achieve this
success by studying fundamentals such as effective group thinking, knowing when to delay a decision for more information, balancing contrasting
modes of thought, and transforming thought into action.
Using a cycle to show the relationship among different strategic thinking tools,
Choosing the Future gives you guidance to respond to these basic questions:
What seems to be happening?
What possibilities do we face?
What are we going to do about it?
Choosing the Future will help you advance your thinking skills. Rather than telling you what to do,
it teaches you to use your business knowledge to discover your own ideas and strategic direction.
Stuart Wells is Professor of Organization
and Management at San Jose State University, where he serves as Director of the Center for Global Competitiveness and as Director of
the Small Business Institute. As founder of the Leading Edge Consulting Group and co-founder of Corporate Wisdom, he has worked on leadership
development and strategy issues with such major corporations as Clorox, Dupont, PepsiCo, and Proctor and Gamble. He is the author of
several books, including From Sage to Artisan: The Nine Roles of the Value-Driven Leader.
Audience
Practicing managers, mid-level managers, professional business trade
Contents
TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK? THAT SHOULD NOT BE A QUESTION * Closed Mind, Open Mind * Hey Buddy, Can You Paradigm? * Seek and You Shall Find
* What's the Sound of One Mind Thinking? * More Than You'll Ever Know * The Opposing Forces of Thought * Ultimate Alchemy|Transforming
Thought into Action * STRATEGIC THINKING BASICS * The Heart of the Matter * In Search of Process * Strategic Thinking Cycle * THERE'S
SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE * Acquiring Insight * Visualizing the Field * The Whirling Maze of Forces * Knowing the Players * Developing
Foresight * Just When You Thought It Was Safe|Navigating Shock Waves * Solving the Puzzle|Detecting Patterns * Creating Crystal Balls|Forming
Scenarios * A Minor Exploratory Interlude|Eclectic Analogies * TALKING THE WALK|DECIDING WHAT TO DO * Identifying Strategic Levers for
Competitive Advantage * Making A Difference|Delivering Value * Moving Against the Grain|Shifting Paradigms * Doing What You Must|Selecting
Critical Success Factors * Matching Levers with Capabilities * Balancing Offense and Defense * Playing Your Best Hand * WALKING THE TALK|DOING
WHAT YOU DECIDE * Choosing a Core Strategy * Forming the Raison d'Etre * Following One Path * Maneuvering Through Shifting Terrain *
Making The Strategy Work * Setting Goals * Taking Actions *
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: OCT-1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-9876-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-9876-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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