FT Publishing The Strategy Book: How to Think and ACT Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

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This book will help readers tackle the really important challenges they face both in developing strategies and putting them into action Consulting Magazine Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great 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. Strategy is simple, but simple is complex. The Third Edition includes updated examples and a new set of practical future-focused tools including the Quick Strategy Canvas and the Big Picture. These will help any manager, regardless of experience, to better develop their inner strategic potential for outstanding results in our ever changing world. People who wanted to shape the future have created our present. With over 7 billion fellow humans sharing our planet, things are not going to slow down or get simpler. At the heart of strategy is the mind of the individual strategist, and by nurturing your ability to see the big picture you can get better at adapting successfully. You can get better at shaping events to get to somewhere better. Using available means to desirable ends. Expectations keep shifting, new competitors keep appearing, rules change and then change again, technologies disrupt and then politics shake up the nature of the landscape in which you compete, work and live. Being more strategic is about our-thinking both competitors and limitations. Strategy is not a solo sport. The Strategy Book focuses on how you can create powerful strategies with other people to deliver success together in a competitive world. It answers the following questions: · What do we know about strategy? · What can creative strategy do for you? · How can you create winning strategies? · How to think and act strategically? · How can you engage people with strategy? · How do you avoid pitfalls and screw-ups? It can be read as a whole or you can dip into the easy-to-read, bite-size sections as and when you need to deal with a particular issue. The structure has been specially designed to make sections quick and easy to use – you’ll find yourself referring to them again and again. Review: Disappointing and Too Superficial - I had high hopes for The Strategy Book, but unfortunately, it didn’t live up to my expectations. While the book touches on a variety of strategic concepts, it barely scratches the surface on any of them. It feels more like a collection of vague ideas than a practical guide for building or implementing strategies. The writing style didn’t help either. It’s overly monotonous, making it hard to stay engaged or motivated to continue reading. There are no real-world examples or deeper explanations that could bring the ideas to life or make them applicable in practice. If you’re looking for a deep dive into strategy with actionable insights, this book probably isn’t for you. It’s more of a high-level overview, but without enough depth to be useful. Review: A great mix of theory and practice - That’s the first book on business strategy I think os really great. Most of strategy contents are just blabla, piece of thoughts, anecdots and theories which you don’t know much what to do with. This one is really practical, with key questions you gotta ask yourself while creating your strategy and a lot lf tools and frameworks at the end that you can immediately put in actio .