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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (HBR Guide Series)

Author Harvard Business Review
Release Date: 2018/12/01
ISBN: 9781633696945
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Book Description

Bring strategy into your daily work.

It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching objectives of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands?

The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list.

You'll learn how to:

  • Understand your organization's strategy
  • Align your team around key objectives
  • Focus on the priorities that matter most
  • Spot trends in your company and in your industry
  • Consider future outcomes when making decisions
  • Manage trade-offs
  • Embrace a leadership mindset

Table of Contents

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