Thursday, 24 September 2009

The Art of Strategy Creation - A Conversation with Rich Horwath

Rich Horwath

A recent Wall Street Journal study revealed that the number one most sought after executive skill by organizations is strategic thinking, but few leaders have that skill set. In his new book, Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action, Rich Horwath dissects the three most important elements of strategic thinking, breaks them down into simple and attainable skills, and shows readers how to apply them every day.

Deep Dive provides managers with a clear path to mastery of three disciplines: Acumen - generate critical insights through a step-by-step evaluation of the business and its environment; Allocation - focus limited resources of time, talent, and money; and, Action - implement a system to guarantee effective execution and communication of strategy throughout the organization. This book is based on research with senior executives from more than 150 companies and Horwath's own experience as a professional strategist.

Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Reporting. Rich Horwath is the founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, an organization dedicated to helping managers develop their strategic thinking skills to achieve competitive advantage. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and serves as a professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

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Corporate Mindset, Circa 2009: "Don't Bother Me With the Truth. I'm Busy."

"I would bet anyone that has worked in the corporate world would agree that organizations are hugely inefficient and that much of what managers do is self-defeating. At the same time, there is a solid body of data on which organizational designs and management practices improve performance. The reason we don't replace what doesn't work with what does is exactly what the latest research in neuroscience teaches us." - Charles S. Jacobs

Charles S. Jacobs

Welcome to a Leadership Channel Podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. Charles S. Jacobs is the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group, founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of the most renowned corporations improve the performance of their businesses. He numbers among his clients fifty of the Fortune 100, and has worked in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

His unique approach enables managers to use the new understanding of how the brain works to comprehensively rethink their businesses, creating more robust competitive strategies and the performance-oriented organizations needed to implement them. His work provides the key to overcome the number one obstacle to meaningful improvement in business performance—the rapid and effective management of change.

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Breakthrough Performance Begins With Rewriting The Future

“When the Three Laws in this book are applied, performance transforms to a level far beyond what most people think is possible. It doesn’t happen bit by bit, but all at once, as organizations and individuals rewrite their future.” – Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

Dave Logan

Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. In their new book The Three Laws Of Performance: Rewriting The Future Of Your Organization And Your Life (Amazon.com link), Dave Logan and co-author Steve Zaffron show companies and individuals how to revive people's passion for accomplishment creating a pathway to unprecedented organizational and personal success. Zaffron, who is CEO of the Vanto Group, has directed corporate initiatives with more than three hundred organizations in twenty countries. Logan, who is on the faculty at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, works with businesses, government, and non-profits, implementing cultural change and strategy. Logan is the author of Tribal Leadership. (Link to TPR interview)

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