The Strategy Book: Create a Strategic Mindset and Future-Proof Your Business

by John Hale

Overview

The Strategy Book will help you re-think this digital planet and the process of strategy creation. It contains twenty quick-to-read notes on how to create a strategic mindset by applying six steps. Following each step are activities designed to future-proof your business.

FROM DOZENS OF ILLUSTRATIONS, INSIGHTS, AND IDEAS, YOU WILL:

- Appreciate the strengths and limitations of the human brain

- Excel in business by applying the six-step Strategic Mindset Process

- Compile your best ideas and answers to empowering questions

- Better sense your environment and see beyond the next horizon

- Connect with stakeholders to create and capture future value

- Combine focus, speed, and influence to deliver strategy successfully

- Cultivate the ability to manage the present and lead the future

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648659006
Publisher:	Hale Consulting Group
Publication date:	03/06/2022
Series:	The Strategy Book
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Keynote speaker, author and mentor, John Hale breaks down hundreds of ideas, including frameworks from all ten schools of thought regarding strategic thinking. ere are also lessons from neuroscience, world history, global companies and the author's life, which reveal the keys to leading strategy successfully. John Hale is an author, strategy advisor and motivational speaker. He is the founder of Hale Consulting Group, a globally focused management consulting firm specialising in strategy, leadership and organisational health. He has worked as an early-stage investor, educated hundreds of start-ups and advised some of the world's biggest firms. He has written three popular books on strategy, taught in business schools and spoken at global conferences.As a motivational speaker, John has delivered over a thousand talks in twelve countries on four continents to leaders from Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies to start-ups and public sector organisations.John grew up in the developed and developing world as a young child. Living in both patriarchal and matrilineal cultures grounded him in the values of truth and justice and the ethics of care and cooperation. Consequently, John brings a balance of sense and sensibility to his work. He currently lives in Australia.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CREATE A STRATEGIC MINDSET

Fred’s Brain

My Amazing Journey

The Book Strategy

STEP 1 - SENSE THE ENVIRONMENT

1.1 Shipshape

1.2 Rhythms

1.3 Keep Sensing

STEP 2 - SEE BEYOND THE NEXT HORIZON

2.1 The Next Horizon

2.2 Play the Odds

2.3 Three-Eyed Ravens

STEP 3 - CONNECT WITH CUSTOMERS & STAKEHOLDERS

3.1 Dialogue

3.2 Ice Cream Vans on the Beach

3.3 The Road Less Travelled

STEP 4 - PLAN FUTURE VALUE

4.1 Value Chains

4.2 Create Unique Value

4.3 Value Combinations

STEP 5 - FOCUS ON A CHOSEN TARGET

5.1 On Target

5.2 Choose

5.3 Focus on Facts

STEP 6 - MOVE FASTER WITH INFLUENCE

6.1 Need for Speed

6.2 Move

6.3 Influence

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS

Six Questions

Conclusion

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

‘The Strategy Book will assist you in creating a Strategic Mindset and a blueprint for success.’

JAMES CARLOPIO, PhD

Author of Strategy by Design

From the Publisher