Book description
If you aren't working with a strategy, you're wasting your time.
Strategy isn't just a set of plans handed down from the C-suite. To grow as a leader, you need to understand your company's strategy and align your thinking, projects, and team with organizational goals and vision. Master these abilities with the HBR Guides to Building Your Strategic Skills Collection. This three-book set, which includes the HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically, the HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives, and the HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy, will help you change the way you think about your work, manage your most important priorities, and craft a strategy for long-term growth.
You'll learn how to:
- Understand what strategy is--and what it isn't
- Define a clear strategy, whether you're in a start-up or in an established business
- Manage a portfolio of strategic projects
- Embed strategic thinking into your daily tasks and decision making
- Align your team around key objectives
- Let go of work that doesn’t add value
- Communicate strategy throughout your organization
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Table of contents
- Contents
-
HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- What You’ll Learn
- Contents
- Introduction: Get the Strategy You Need—Now
- Section One: What Is Strategy?
- Section Two: Lay the Foundation
- Section Three: Develop Your Strategy
- Section Four: Test Your Strategic Choices
- Section Five: Communicate Your Strategy
- Section Six: Execute the Strategy and Learn from It
- Index
-
HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives
- Harvard Business Review Guides
- Title Page
- Copyright
- What You’ll Learn
- Contents
- Introduction: Putting Strategy into Action
- Section One: From Idea to Pitch
- Section Two: Evaluating and Prioritizing an Initiative Portfolio
- Section Three: Launching and Implementing Initiatives
- Section Four: Maintaining Momentum and Overcoming Challenges
- Section Five: Keeping Strategy and Execution Aligned
- Index
-
HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- What You’ll Learn
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section One: Get Started: Be Strategic in Your Daily Work
- Section Two: Understand Your Organization’s Strategy
- Section Three: Develop a Big-Picture Perspective
- Section Four: Align Decisions with Strategic Objectives
- Section Five: Set Priorities and Manage Trade-Offs
- Section Six: Align Your Team Around Strategic Goals
- Section Seven: Move from Thinking Strategically to Executing the Strategy
- Section Eight: Navigate Strategic Thinking Challenges
- Appendix A: Questions to Inspire Strategic Thinking
- Appendix B: Organizational Strategy: A Primer
- Index
Product information
- Title: HBR Guides to Building Your Strategic Skills Collection (3 Books)
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2020
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633699304
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