The strategist
Subtitle: be the leader your business needs
By: Cynthia Montgomery
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780007426683; 9780007426676; 9780007462353; 9780007448449
Subjects: Leadership; Executive ability; Strategic planning
Description: Strategy and leadership have become separated in the business world. Legendary Harvard Business School Professor Cynthia Montgomery reveals why and how they need to be re-integrated for ultimate business success. Cynthia Montgomery teaches the globally-renowned EOP (Entrepreneur, Owner, President) course at Harvard Business School, one of Harvard's most oversubscribed executive courses. Participants are all seasoned executives, owners, CEOs, or COOs of privately held companies who pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend, with the goal of learning how to be more effective leaders and how to make their companies more successful. Montgomery's course teaches them a totally new way to understand leadership, a way that fuses leadership with strategy. Her approach calls for a reset of current thinking about both. She shows that strategy is not just a tool for outwitting the competition -- it is the most powerful means a leader has for shaping a firm itself. Montgomery takes the readers through the paces of her world-renowned course, teaching them how to develop the skills and sensibilities that living strategy and real leadership demand. No other book marries strategy and leadership in the same way -- a way readers will find challenging, intriguing, and ultimately, inspiring.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.