Playing the Strategy Game

Description
Behind every good business is a good strategy. Who's behind yours? Strategy is a skill not a formula. Now’s the time to make great strategy one of your skills. You can't afford to wait to be handed a good strategy. This book will develop your strategic thinking and coach you in more effective strategic behaviour. Playing the Strategy Game establishes the link between personal and corporate strategic agendas. It provides a clear guide to becoming a strong performer in the competitive game of business. The business game is still played at both the operational and strategic level. The ambitious manager who wants to live and succeed in this complex but rewarding world, has to gain an effective set of generic skills. With Playing the Strategy Game, you will: - understand strategic thinking and the strategy process - create better strategies, more quickly - create the appropriate strategies for you and your business - communicate and win support for your strategy - develop your own strategic sense and imagination - make your strategic radar more reliable - link your corporate and personal strategic agendas - become a smarter strategist Create your own strategy rather than living someone else's.

Author

Patrick J. Thurbin is Principal Business Consultant and Strategy Lecturer at Kingston University’s Business School. He has lectured as a Visiting Professor in Management at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA ; and in business strategy at the prestigious Academy of National Economy in Moscow, Russia.

He combines a wide range of consulting assignments in national and multinational organisations with research and lecturing at the University.

Reviews
"Finally a strategic book that talks about the strategist and his thinking and not the hard processes along the way. Strategy does not typically develop from tables or tools, it comes from 'thinking with your head and speaking with your heart'. Pat Thurbin has expertly combined these unique perspectives in this wonderful read". Patrick Harris, Head of Strategy - Orange

This book is about personal empowerment. Pat Thurbin will help you to identify and trust your intuition to win at the strategy game. Brian Elliott MBA, Director, Planet Organic " Managers at all levels will benefit from this innovative, enlightened and pragmatic approach to what is today one of the most important ingredients for business success - understanding and winning the Strategy Game". John Dorland, CEO Dorland & Associates, International Strategic Enterprises