Solving the Strategy Delusion [electronic resource] : Mobilizing People and Realizing Distinctive Strategies /
Stigter, M.author.
Cooper, C.author.
Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century. The book challenges conventional and 'delusional' approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, planning, acting, and mobilising when it comes to making strategy happen in a world of volatility and complexity.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword by; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; 1 What's Going On?; The Change delusion; The Planning delusion; The Behavioural delusion; The Customer delusion; The People delusion; The Leadership delusion; 2 Strategic Sensing - Not Just Thinking; Trapped in the north view; In search of D-options; The need for strategic sensing; Stretching seeing; Stretching feeling; 3 Co-Creating a Compelling Story; The mobilizing challenge: people who Can, Know and Want; The power of collective dialogue and sensemaking
Making collective sense of seven 'simple' questions4 Co-Creating Distinctive Strategies; Beyond conventional planning; Beyond monopolized planning; Co-creating with the board; Co-creating with internal outsiders; Co-creating with customers; Co-creating with mass-consumers; Co-creating with additional stakeholders; 5 Realizing Distinctive Strategies; Linking strategy creation and execution; Middle managers don't just do; Changing engines whilst flying the plane; Realizing strategy through individual action; 6 Overcoming Inertia; Organizational inertia - asleep at the switch
Individual inertia - the elephant in the roomWhy do individual employees withdraw energies?; What are key drivers for exerting extra-energies?; The longing for recognition; 7 Sustaining Organizational Energy; Sustaining customer-centricity; Sustaining critical mass; Sustaining combined energies at multiple levels; Sustaining momentum; Sustaining energy through social media; Sustaining leadership orchestration; Afterword; Glossary; Notes; Index
Includes index.
Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century. The book challenges conventional and 'delusional' approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, planning, acting, and mobilising when it comes to making strategy happen in a world of volatility and complexity.
Leadership.
Management.
Personnel management.
Organization.
Planning.
Behavioral economics.
Office management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Management.
Human Resource Management.
Organization.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Office Management.