Strategy Workout, The: The 10 Tried-and-Tested Steps That Will Build Your Strategic Thinking Skills, 1st edition

Published by Pearson Business (16 December 2015) © 2016

  • Bernard Ross
  • Clare Segal
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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.

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Assess Yourself: Building the Strategic Mindset and Skillset
  • Self-Assessment Questionnaire
  • Part 1: 10 Steps to Becoming a More Strategic Thinker
  • Step 1 - Join the conversation: Thinking and Talking Strategy
  • Step 2 - Strategy Stress Test: Getting the Fundamentals Right
  • Step 3 - Sort Stuff Out: Clarifying the Real Situation
  • Step 4 - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: Dealing with what’s Important
  • Step 5 - Imagine Possibilities: Thinking like a Futurologist
  • Step 6 - Know your Enemy: Assessing the Competition
  • Step 7 - Focus Your Energy: Make the Right Choices
  • Step 8 - Think Outside the Box: Using Innovation to Develop New Ideas
  • Step 9 - Explore the Territory: Building a Strategy Map
  • Step 10 - Maintain Momentum: Turning Ideas into Action
  • Part 2: 10 Strategy Skills in Action
  • Action 1 - Entering the Dragon's Den: Pitching your Idea
  • Action 2 - Transmitting on WIFM: The World's Favourite Radio Station
  • Action 3 - Creating a Burning Platform: Explaining Difficult Choices
  • Action 4 - Absolutely Fabulous: Planning Strategy PR
  • Action 5 - Think, Feel, Do: Getting Your Message Across
  • Action 6 - Creating your Strategy ‘A Team’: Putting Together Talent
  • Action 7 - Meeting the Black Swan: Thinking the Unthinkable
  • Action 8 - “Resistance is Futile”: Overcoming the 5Cs
  • Action 9 - Strategic Swimming: Are you like a Shark or a Whale?
  • Action 10 - Strategy Stylist: Keeping up with Fashionable Gurus
  • Part 3: 10 Overcoming Strategy Challenges
  • Challenge 1 - Post Mortem: How to Learn When a Plan Goes Wrong
  • Challenge 2 - #me: How to Develop Powerful Personal Branding
  • Challenge 3 - Think Fast and Slow: How to make Difficult Choices
  • Challenge 4 - Pivot: How to Change the Plan on the Move
  • Challenge 5 - Look and Learn: How to Work with Consultants
  • Challenge 6 - Smarter Strategy: How to Develop Double Loop Learning
  • Challenge 7 - Careful!: How to Manage Organisational Risk
  • Challenge 8 - Mind your Back: How to Manage Personal Risk
  • Challenge 9 - Only 24hrs: How to Balance Short and Long Term Priorities
  • Challenge 10 - Napkin-Based Strategy: How to Explain Your Idea Informally
  • Build your Development Plan: Growing your Strategic Mindset and Skillset
  • Re-assess yourself and personal development checklist
  • Self-Assessment Questionnaire

 

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