Strategic Speed

Download or read book Strategic Speed written by Jocelyn R. Davis and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Strategic Speed, we finally get the implementation model that needs to go with the strategy."---Lean Schlesinger, President, Babson College --

Download or read book Strategic Speed written by Jocelyn Davis and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 30 percent of strategic initiatives are successfully executed. Of those that are, most CEOs view the process as too slow. What’s going on? And how can you accelerate execution in your company? In Strategic Speed, the authors provide the answers. Start by understanding the barriers to execution: Employees don’t grasp where an initiative is going. They don’t adopt new behaviors. They’re not committed to working together to achieve results. Most leaders try to speed things up by changing processes or installing new technologies. But better processes and systems won’t remove the barriers. Instead, you need to unleash three people factors—clarity (understanding the goal), unity (collaborating across work groups), and agility (adapting quickly). The authors explain how to unleash these factors by exercising four leadership abilities: • Affirming strategies: Ensuring everyone knows the destination and wants to go there • Driving initiatives: Accelerating projects called for by your strategy • Managing climate: Controlling what it feels like to work in your team • Cultivating experience: Harnessing employees’ knowledge and expertise Strategic Speed provides real-world examples—from companies as diverse as Tata Sky, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ameriprise, and Fender Guitars—showing these practices in action. And it’s packed with tools and assessments for diagnosing where your execution efforts are in trouble and choosing specific actions for accelerating results in your firm.

Download or read book MASTERING 360 PRINCIPLES IN STRATEGY written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Tzu Bing Fa™ Masterpiece: Mastering 360 Principles In Strategy helps you quickly master and practice all 360 strategy principles in Sun Tzu The Art of War™. Each principle is carefully analyzed and explained through business and social contexts so that you understand how this powerful wisdom is applied in the real world. Knowing how these strategy principles are applied in real-life situations will help you accomplish your mastery of Sun Tzu The Art of War™. Your strategy mastery will help you obtain your upper hand and gain your competitive edge so that you can conduct your life and your business with power. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

Download or read book SUN TZU STRATEGIC MILLIONAIRE™ written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Tzu Strategic Millionaire™ shows you how to use Sun Tzu The Art of War™ as your secret competing weapon to win and succeed in any competition and make a lot of money so that you can become a Sun Tzu Strategic Millionaire™. This book shows you how to develop millionaire skills, establish a realistic millionaire position, and craft a practical millionaire strategy for scaling up your business and advancing your position in your industry. Applying proven strategy principles and strategy formulas in this book will make you a decisive, effective, adaptive and Competitive Sun Tzu Strategic Millionaire™. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Download or read book SUN TZU 10X™: 10 STRATEGY RULES TO WIN 10X written by James Sonhill DBA and published by Sonhill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Tzu 10X™: 10 Strategy Rules To Win 10X is based on the idea that you have to create and offer ten times of better or similar business value competitors are offering if you want to win and succeed ten times in order to dominate your competing space and competing industry while you are still able to increase your strategic speed and keep your business overhead low. This book has ten practical and effective strategy rules which you can implement to create ten times of value in your business and compete with anyone and still win and succeed ten times in your business competition. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Download or read book Fuzzy Logic Techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation written by Dimiter Driankov and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade a critical mass of work that uses fuzzy logic for autonomous vehicle navigation has been reported. Unfortunately, reports of this work are scattered among conference, workshop, and journal publications that belong to different research communities (fuzzy logic, robotics, artificial intelligence, intelligent control) and it is therefore not easily accessible either to the new comer or to the specialist. As a result, researchers in this area may end up reinventing things while being unaware of important existing work. We believe that research and applications based on fuzzy logic in the field of autonomous vehicle navigation have now reached a sufficient level of maturity, and that it should be suitably reported to the largest possible group of interested practitioners, researches, and students. On these grounds, we have endeavored to collect some of the most representative pieces of work in one volume to be used as a reference. Our aim was to provide a volume which is more than "yet another random collection of papers," and gives the reader some added value with respect to the individual papers. In order to achieve this goal we have aimed at: • Selecting contributions which are representative of a wide range of prob lems and solutions and which have been validated on real robots; and • Setting the individual contributions in a clear framework, that identifies the main problems of autonomous robotics for which solutions based on fuzzy logic have been proposed.