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    Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking

    Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking

    by Rich Horwath


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      ISBN-13: 9781118653500
    • Publisher: Wiley
    • Publication date: 03/03/2014
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 192
    • File size: 2 MB

    RICH HORWATH is the CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author on strategy. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and professor of strategy and has appeared on ABC, NBC and FOX TV. Horwath has helped more than 50,000 managers around the world develop their strategic thinking skills and is consistently ranked the #1 speaker on strategy&innovation at national conferences.

    For More information, visit strategyskills.com.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction 1

    Elevate 1

    Importance of Strategy 3

    Top 10 Strategy Challenges 5

    GOST Framework 12

    Strategy Defined 14

    Thinking Strategically 16

    1,000-Foot View 21

    Discipline #1: Coalesce 23

    Patterns in Strategy 26

    Systems 32

    Platforms 34

    Business Model 39

    Phase I of the Business Model: Value Creation 40

    Phase II of the Business Model: Value Delivery 44

    Phase III of the Business Model: Value Capture 48

    Profitable Growth 52

    Strategy and Innovation 58

    Types of Innovation 59

    1,000-Foot View 67

    Discipline #2: Compete 69

    Competitive Condition 73

    Leader 73

    Challenger 76

    Spectator 82

    Competitive Advantage 84

    Competitive Intelligence 88

    Trade-off Zone 91

    Indirect Competition 94

    Intangible Competition 97

    1,000-Foot View 102

    Discipline #3: Champion 103

    Using Time Strategically 106

    Time Trade-Off Techniques 109

    Influencing Strategy Commitment 112

    Increasing Buy-In with Social Proof 115

    Strategic Behavior 119

    Practicing Strategic Thinking 122

    Developing Strategy Habits 129

    Strategy Conversations 134

    The Power of Story 138

    Creating a Strategy Story 141

    1,000-Foot View 145

    Conclusion 147

    When to Change Strategy 147

    Fire Prevention 149

    Tactical Evaluation Matrix 151

    Strategy Launch Review 153

    Strategy Scaffold 155

    Strategic I Am 157

    1,000-Foot View 160

    Notes 163

    Index 173

    Acknowledgments 181

    About the Author 183

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    According to a study published in Chief Executive Magazine, the most valued skill in leaders today is strategic thinking. However, more than half of all companies say that strategic thinking is the skill their senior leaders most need to improve. Elevate provides leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities. Unlike the majority of books that focus on strategy from a corporate perspective, Elevate gives the individual executive practical tools and techniques to help them become a truly strategic leader. The new framework that will enable leaders to finally integrate both strategy and innovation into a strategic approach that drives their profitable growth is the Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking:

    1. Coalesce: Fusing together insights to create an innovative business model.

    2. Compete: Creating a system of strategy to achieve competitive advantage.

    3. Champion: Leading others to think and act strategically to execute strategy.

    Every leader desperately wants to be strategic--their career depends on it. Elevate provides the roadmap to reach the strategic leadership summit.

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