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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
What You’ll Learn
Contents
Introduction
Section One: Get Started: Be Strategic in Your Daily Work
1. Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
2. To Be Strategic, Balance Agility and Consistency
3. Prove You’re Ready for the Next Level by Showing Off Your Strategic Thinking Skills
Section Two: Understand Your Organization’s Strategy
4. Understanding Your Organization’s Strategy
5. Strategy Isn’t What You Say, It’s What You Do
6. Building a Strategic Network
Section Three: Develop a Big-Picture Perspective
7. Spotting Trends and Patterns That Affect Your Business
8. Look at Your Company from the Outside In
9. Thinking Long-Term in a Short-Term Economy
10. The Future Is Scary. Creative
11. Zoom In, Zoom Out
Section Four: Align Decisions with Strategic Objectives
12. Reflect on Your Actions and Choices
13. Seven Steps for Making Faster, Better Decisions
14. How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data
Section Five: Set Priorities and Manage Trade-Offs
15. A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities
16. How to Prioritize When Your Manager Is Hands-Off
17. Identify and Kill Outdated Objectives
18. What to Do When Strategic Goals Conflict
19. Assess and Manage Trade-Offs
Section Six: Align Your Team Around Strategic Goals
20. To Be a Strategic Leader, Ask the Right Questions
21. An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future
22. Communicating a Corporate Vision to Your Team
Section Seven: Move from Thinking Strategically to Executing the Strategy
23. Execution Is a People Problem, Not a Strategy Problem
24. How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution
25. How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
26. Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going to Do
Section Eight: Navigate Strategic Thinking Challenges
27. When You Think the Strategy Is Wrong
28. When Your Boss Gives You Conflicting Messages
29. When the Strategy Is Unclear, in Flux, or Always Changing
Appendix A: Questions to Inspire Strategic Thinking
Appendix B: Organizational Strategy: A Primer
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