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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (HBR Guide Series)

By Harvard Business Review
Series: HBR Guide
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The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically helps readers hone their strategic thinking skills to make better decisions in their personal and professional lives. It offers practical advice on analyzing complex situations, understanding your competitors, and identifying the best paths forward. Readers are guided through strategic frameworks and techniques to navigate challenges effectively and shape their future with confidence.
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This engaging guide may appeal to you if you're seeking to enhance your strategic thinking skills. It offers practical advice that helps you make better long-term decisions, identifies key strategies to drive your organisation's success, and provides tools to think more innovatively and competitively within the world of business and entrepreneurship.

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Bring strategy into your daily work. You need to change the way you think. The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically

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Bring strategy into your daily work.

It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work—and the work of your team—aligns with the overarching objectives of your organisation. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands?

You need to change the way you think. The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work—from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list—and help you become the leader you aspire to be.

You'll learn how to:

  • Understand your organisation's strategy
  • Align your team around key objectives
  • Focus on the priorities that matter
  • Spot trends in your company and in your industry
  • Consider future outcomes when making decisions
  • Manage trade-offs
  • Embrace a leadership mindset

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781633696938

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 January 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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