According to a study published in Chief Executive Magazine, the most valued skill in leaders today is strategic thinking. However, more than half of all companies say that strategic thinking is the skill their senior leaders most need to improve. Elevate provides leaders with a framework and toolkit for develop-ing advanced strategic thinking capabilities. Unlike the majority of books that focus on strategy from a corpo-rate perspective, Elevate gives the individual executive practical tools and techniques to help them become a truly strategic leader. The new framework that will enable leaders to finally integrate both strategy and inno-vation into a strategic approach that drives their profitable growth is the Three Disciplines
of Advanced Strategic Thinking:
1. Coalesce: Fusing together insights to create an innovative business model.
2. Compete: Creating a system of strategy to achieve competitive advantage.
3. Champion: Leading others to think and act strategically to execute strategy.
Every leader desperately wants to be strategic--their career depends on it. Elevate provides the roadmap to reach the strategic leadership summit.
“Rich Horwath has done it again! With Deep Dive, Rich simplified the complexity of strategic thinking and en-abled our managers with practical tools. Now with Elevate, our leaders are armed with the framework to de-velop insightful strategies that will be the differentiator that gives us a competitive advantage. If you only read one book on strategy, this has to be that book!” —Dale Hicks, Global Sourcing and Procurement Manager, Intel
“Strategic thinking is the most important skill in the continued pursuit of innovative products and services that lead to competitive advantage. Leaders wrestling with how to configure their core competencies and ca-pabilities to achieve organic growth will find Elevate a valuable resource. Rich Horwath shares with managers dozens of tools to help their teams develop the skills to create competitive differentiation that customers val-ue.” —Jay Tibbets, President, ATK Sporting Group
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