Business Strategy E-Book

Patrick J. Stroh

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 185

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Embrace strategies for improving your business and reaching your organization's goals "I wholeheartedly agree with Patrick Stroh: Good leaders understand strategy and good strategists need to be good leaders. Make this book a strategic tool for improving your business strategy." -- Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellerSwim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive In today's fast-moving and competitive business environment, strong leadership, insightful strategy, and effective innovation are critical links to staying ahead of your competition. Getting your business house in order can often be complicated, but does it really have to be? How do you take MBA 101 lessons, great models, and exceptional concepts and put them into play in the real world? Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! strives to answers these questions in an educational and entertaining format. Working as a Fortune 20 practitioner with C-level executives, author Patrick Stroh has a keen understanding of the role played by current day strategists. With 5 chapters following the format of "All I Ever Needed to Learn About Business Strategy I Learned..." At the Movies, On the Farm, On Shark Tank, On Hell's Kitchen, and From the Bible, readers will gain valuable strategic insight regardless of industry, business maturity, or current business turbulence and how to apply these insights based on the factors impacting their own business. Each chapter ends with a One Chapter Conclusion, Two Gold Nuggets the reader is to write down and Three Additional Resources/Tools for more information, offering a practical roadmap to simplifying your success.

Leseprobe

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Level Setting/Foundation

Chapter 1: Evolution of Strategic Planning and Today’s Role: Chief Strategy Officer

Evolution of Strategic Planning

New Role: Chief Strategy Officer

What Type of Chief Strategy Officer Is Needed?

CSO: A Distributed Solution versus a Singular Role

Summary

Chapter 2: Emotional Intelligence: Being “Facilitative and Consultative”

Characterizations

Innovation and Linkage to Business Strategy

Summary

Part II: Parables that Teach and Portray Business Strategy

Chapter 3: Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned . . . from

Hell’s Kitchen

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Kitchen Nightmares

Hell’s Kitchen

Kitchen Nightmares

Final Plating of This Chapter

Summary

Chapter 4: Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned . . . at the Movies

21 Movies: Six Lessons on Business Strategy

Summary

Chapter 5: Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned . . . Growing Up on a Farm

Hard Work

Being the Boss

Planning and Executing

Technology

Milk Co-ops

Innovation

Outsourcing

Delegation

Sharpening the Saw

Summary

Chapter 6: Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned . . . from the Bible

Five Themes of Business Parables from the Bible

Summary

Chapter 7: Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned . . . from

Shark Tank

Typical Questions the Sharks Ask All Presenters

Round 2: Shark Personalities

Summary

Part III: Tools, Resources, and Conclusions

Chapter 8: The Strategy Toolbox and Other References

13 Lucky Models and Methods

Personal Top 12 Most Valuable Business Books of All Time

One Final Tool

Chapter 9: Winning Checklist: How to Succeed in Business Strategy

Winning Conclusions and Summary

A Closing Song

About the Author

Index

End User License Agreement

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Business Strategy

Plan, Execute, Win!

Patrick J. Stroh