Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action

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The inability to set good strategy can sink a company-and a leader's career. A recent Wall Street Journal study revealed that the most sought-after executive skill is strategic thinking, but only three out of ten managers have this skill set. Author Rich Horwath explains the three keys to strategic thinking, breaks them down into simple, attainable skills, and gives you practical tools to apply them every day, providing managers with a clear ...
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Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action

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Overview

The inability to set good strategy can sink a company-and a leader's career. A recent Wall Street Journal study revealed that the most sought-after executive skill is strategic thinking, but only three out of ten managers have this skill set. Author Rich Horwath explains the three keys to strategic thinking, breaks them down into simple, attainable skills, and gives you practical tools to apply them every day, providing managers with a clear path to mastery of the three disciplines:

1. Acumen-generate critical insights through a step-by-step evaluation of your business and its environment
2. Allocation-focus your limited resources through strategic trade-offs
3. Action-implement a system to guarantee effective execution of strategy at all levels of your organization

Based on new research with senior executives from 150 companies and the author's experience as a thought-leading strategist, Deep Dive is the first book to focus on the most important level of strategy-you. Armed with this knowledge and dozens of effective tools, you can become a truly strategic leader for your organization.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781929774821
  • Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
  • Publication date: 8/1/2009
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 214
  • Sales rank: 113,344
  • Product dimensions: 5.74 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Rich Horwath is the president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, a former chief strategy officer, and professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. As a thought-leading strategist, he has worked with such giants as Adidas, Amgen, and Pfizer. He is the author of four books and more than fifty articles on strategic thinking and has been profiled in business publications around the world, including Investor's Business Daily.
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  • Posted August 5, 2011

    Incredible tool!

    As a business coach, I found Deep Dive to be an incredible teaching tool. The book was jam packed full of ways to help equip a business owner to develop a culture of strategy in their organization. I was so grateful for all the charts and worksheets the author provided and plan to use them to help my clients better design their business' strategic position.

    I found the book technical to read but amazingly informative. From the time I picked it up I couldn't put it down as I was entralled with all the incredible ways to transition your mind set from operational focus to strategic focus. (I actually read it twice).

    More than any other book on strategy, I will keep this as a reference tool and use it again and again with my own clients. I know I am a better business leader because of reading this book!

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