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The Art of What Works: How Great Leaders Adapt Competitive Strategies to Their Advantage

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Defining the best strategic approach for your business or a solution to a particular problem need not come from scratch. You can borrow ideas from someone else and make them your own. In fact, from Napoleon to Jack Welch, the greatest leaders and the most successful businesses have been doing just that for centuries. While most guides on strategy argue for a particular plan or system to ensure business success, The Art of What Works eschews that approach. Strategy is not one-size-fits-all. Cisco's approach wouldn't work for General Motors. However, some elements of Cisco's approach to business, may be suitable for a particular issue GM is facing. The Art of What Works argues that there are no good strategies or bad strategies - just strategies that work best in a given situation. The trick is to distill and synthesize those elements that are most appropriate to develop new strategies for your business. The Art of What Works provides leaders with a new framework for developing creative strategies. Creative strategy is really very simple. By learning from experience - your own and others' - you bring to bear new combinations of strategic thinking to any new situation, providing insig

Language: English

Pages: 289

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Release: July 16, 2003

ISBN: 0071412069

ISBN 13: 9780071412063

The Art of What Works: How Great Leaders Adapt Competitive Strategies to Their Advantage

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Defining the best strategic approach for your business or a solution to a particular problem need not come from scratch. You can borrow ideas from someone else and make them your own. In fact, from Napoleon to Jack Welch, the greatest leaders and the most successful businesses have been doing just that for centuries. While most guides on strategy argue for a particular plan or system to ensure business success, The Art of What Works eschews that approach. Strategy is not one-size-fits-all. Cisco's approach wouldn't work for General Motors. However, some elements of Cisco's approach to business, may be suitable for a particular issue GM is facing. The Art of What Works argues that there are no good strategies or bad strategies - just strategies that work best in a given situation. The trick is to distill and synthesize those elements that are most appropriate to develop new strategies for your business. The Art of What Works provides leaders with a new framework for developing creative strategies. Creative strategy is really very simple. By learning from experience - your own and others' - you bring to bear new combinations of strategic thinking to any new situation, providing insig

Language: English

Pages: 289

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Release: July 16, 2003

ISBN: 0071412069

ISBN 13: 9780071412063

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