From Strategic Insight to Superior Performance

This is not the time for standpattism, especially when it comes to business strategy. Old assumptions about what strategy is and how to make it drive planning and decision making must be rethought.

Forget strategy as merely a creative exercise, or a purely analytical activity, or a venture in quantitative analysis, or as so much rah rah to galvanize employees. Based on work with an impressive array of international organizations, Mike Freedman does away with the chasm between formulating and implanting strategy, and in the process sweeps away much of the traditional thinking on the subject.

As you click through these excerpts from The Art and Discipline, be prepared to kick some of the sacred cows that may be inhibiting your organization’s ability to remain out front on change, ahead of competitors, and a continuing source of value for your customers.