Download or read book Strategic Failure written by Mark Moyar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically profiles American military power during Barack Obama's presidency, arguing that the downsizing of armed forces has lowered the nation's defensive capabilities.
Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Download or read book Overcome Why Strategic Plans Fail for a Breakout Strategy written by Doug Treen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations often fail to reach their potential growth. The book identifies the hidden dilemmas and pitfalls of strategic planning. It creates awareness of the planning traps, so companies can create a breakout strategy. This is not another theoretical book. It is written for the Board, CEO and Executives who are responsible for creating the company's future.It is a hands-on book reflecting the practical insights of the author's own experiences conducting strategic planning. It includes process guidelines along with an organizational assessment tool to identify areas that an organization needs to work on to create strategic success. The book emphasizes participative planning, awareness building, reality checks, innovation, differentiation, tactical testing, execution, change management, perfomance planning and strategic controls. Above all the book will enable your firm to come to grips with its organizational capability, enabling it to identify new opportunities for a breakout strategy.
Download or read book Sir William Howe A Study In Failed Strategic Leadership written by Colonel Brian Joseph McHugh and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the strategic leadership competencies of British General William Howe during the American Revolution (1775-1778). During the American War of Independence, General Howe displayed periodic tactical brilliance and operational competence but consistent strategic ineptitude. After arriving in America, Howe was quickly thrust into the position of Commander-in-Chief of British Forces and General of North America. Howe’s lack of self-awareness, ineptness in managing the personalities of his subordinate commanders, personal biases, and lack of political savvy resulted in the strategic failure of the British war effort. Howe’s difficulty in transitioning from tactical, through operational to the strategic level provides a useful example as to the dramatically different challenges faced by current leaders as they prepare for and address similar challenges in our contemporary operational and strategic environment.
Download or read book Simple Strategic Planning written by Phil Wilton and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide will walk you through five definitive moves that will improve business competitiveness! Why? Because you will learn about your organizations current position in the market place, and you will deeply explore the inner workflows and processes of your organization. This will then allow you to discover an untapped treasure trove of valuable data on your resources and capabilities that has not yet been realized or fully exploited. If you're planning a pivot of you're organization, or any part of it, your plan, in effect your strategy, is going to be akin to working blind, without the priceless data yielded in these five moves. In fact this strategic model will be extremely useful for any entity planning on pivoting and implementing competitive change, to their status quo. Five moves to checkmate is essential for leaders at all levels, and in all organizations and businesses that seek to attain, or retain their competitive advantage. Five moves to checkmate will also assist University and college educators, as well as students wishing to develop their business knowledge and acumen in strategic studies. What you will learn in ‘Five Moves To Checkmate’ is the importance of making sure you gather all the relevant external and internal data available to you. This data will then be categorized and deposited into well-known and proven strategic templates. Once these strategic templates are completed, the fifth move will connect all the data into a well known and widely used master strategic guide. This guide will be highly valuable in aiding your organization to successfully implement a strategic plan, maximizing your competitive advantage and winning your checkmate.
Download or read book Strategic Marketing written by Douglas West and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses how companies create competitive advantage through strategic marketing. Using established frameworks and concepts, it examines aspects of marketing strategy and thinking. It provides examples to facilitate the understanding of theoretical concepts.
Download or read book Strategy Praxis written by George Tovstiga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a different approach to thinking about and engaging with strategy in the practice field. The insight-driven, first principles-based approach to strategising and strategic problem-solving developed in this book provides a conceptually rigorous yet pragmatic approach to strategising, and as such the book addresses deficiencies of the current theory-practice gap in the strategy field. In particular, the author introduces and develops a conceptually rigorous approach to the crucial transition stage from strategic analysis to strategic option formation in the strategy process. The book introduces several new concepts such as the firm's unique competing space and its strategic boundaries, the strategic thinking algorithm, and shows how these, when integrated with existing approaches and first-principles thinking, significantly enhance the coherence and effectiveness of strategic problem-solving in practice. Additionally, the book includes supplementary enhancing features throughout the chapters in the form of Praxis Reflections, Praxis Perspectives, and Praxis Cases that tie the concepts and methods presented to real-world strategy practice. This book will appeal not only to strategy practitioners, but also academic researchers and graduate-level students of strategic management.
Download or read book Playing to Win written by Alan G. Lafley and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.
Download or read book Strategic Challenges written by Stephen J. Flanagan and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts analyze seven key security challenges
Download or read book The U S and Canadian Army Strategies Failures in Understanding written by Stephen Brent Appleton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HBR s 10 Must Reads on Change Management including featured article Leading Change by John P Kotter written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to. If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leading Change,” by John P. Kotter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to: Lead change through eight critical stages Establish a sense of urgency Overcome addiction to the status quo Mobilize commitment Silence naysayers Minimize the pain of change Concentrate resources Motivate change when business is good This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" by John P. Kotter, "Change Through Persuasion," "Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano," "Radical Change, the Quiet Way," "Tipping Point Leadership," "A Survival Guide for Leaders," "The Real Reason People Won't Change," "Cracking the Code of Change," "The Hard Side of Change Management," and "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change."
Download or read book Strategic Management written by Abbass F. Alkhafaji and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with helpful insights into the state of the art in strategic management as well as 21 suggested corporated cases for analysis, this book provides a framework for the formulation, implementation, and control of strategies for all types of domestic and global organizations.
Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategy and Politics written by Colin S. Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious deficiency, and explains the high relevance of political factors for matters of general defence. Each chapter aims to show how and why strategy and politics interact and how this interaction has had significant consequences historically. Neither strategy nor politics can make sense if considered alone. Strategy requires direction that can only be provided by political process, while politics cannot be implemented without strategy. In summary, this volume will explain: what strategy is (and is not) why strategy is essential what strategy does and how it does it how strategy is made and executed Written by a leading scholar and former practitioner, this book will be essential reading for all students of military strategy, strategic studies, security studies and war and conflict studies.
Download or read book Strategic Communication written by Kevin Marsh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for the study of strategic communication in the fields of politics, diplomacy and civill society. Contains theory, practice and case studies.
Download or read book How is my CEO doing written by Kit H. Lui and published by Phoenix Consulting. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I used my POE AI bot, KitLuiCEObot, to write this book based on materials I uploaded to my bot. It was written by my bot with some editing and research from me and some prompts and questions to train the bot. Hope you enjoy the journey and learn something new from my book. This book is intended for CEOs and people that deal with them. It provides a practical tool of quick referencing for CEOs. We hope that you will use my bot to further explore the role of a CEO in innovation and leadership for a 21st century corporation. The success of the organization depends on the CEO more than ever now in our exponentially changing global environment. The book emphasizes the importance of innovation and leadership in the 21st century business landscape. It explores the innovation process, mindset, and culture, highlighting the stages and steps involved in bringing new ideas to life. It also discusses various tools and methods that can facilitate innovation, such as brainstorming, design thinking, and lean startup. Moreover, the book delves into the essential qualities and skills of an excellent CEO, as well as the factors that shape a CEO's performance and impact. It explores the challenges and obstacles that CEOs may face and provides practical advice for success. The book also addresses the relationship between the CEO and the board, offering principles and guidance for effective collaboration. Additionally, the book touches upon the significance of employee engagement and the impact it has on organizational success. It identifies the main drivers and factors of employee engagement and provides actionable steps to increase engagement levels within an organization. Furthermore, the book discusses the different types of organizational failure and the drivers that can prevent such failures. It highlights the stages and phases of organizational failure and the challenges that hinder its resolution. Actionable steps are provided to avoid organizational failure and promote a culture of continuous improvement. Lastly, the book explores the identification of bad CEOs, the sources that enable their behavior, and the impacts they have on organizations. It also addresses the factors that delay the removal of bad CEOs and provides actionable steps to avoid or replace them. In conclusion, this book provides a comprehensive guide for CEOs and leaders in navigating the challenges of the modern business world. It emphasizes the importance of innovation, leadership, employee engagement, and organizational success. The book offers practical advice, tools, and methods to foster innovation, develop essential leadership qualities, and create a culture of continuous improvement. It serves as a valuable resource for CEOs looking to enhance their performance and drive positive outcomes for their organizations. Enjoy the journey!
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
