A powerful guide to becoming a strategic leader who makes insightful business decisions and manages risk in volatile and unpredictable environments
Written by a team of seasoned strategy consultants, Strategy and Change: Finding Opportunity in Disruption Through Insight, Choice, and Risk delivers an insightful playbook on recognizing relevant patterns, making consistently sound business decisions, and effectively managing risk in a world defined by disruption and volatility. This follow-up to the authors' first book, Leading with Strategic Thinking, covers major business developments and trends occurring since 2015. It explores disruption from technological advancements, like generative AI, as well as unforeseen crises, like the global COVID-19 pandemic.
In this book, readers will find invaluable insights into:
- The four ways to lead strategy in today's complex business environment: visionary leadership, directive leadership, incubating leadership, and collaborative leadership
- How to analyze problems and make decisions that achieve short- and long-term success
- New methods to evaluate hazards as both threats and opportunities in a marketplace that has become increasingly disruptive and unpredictable
Grounded in the latest research and real-world case studies, Strategy and Change earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs seeking proven guidance to navigate the new world of business. It's also an invaluable resource for risk management professionals, academics, and early-career professionals involved in strategy and leadership.
Praise for STRATEGY AND CHANGE
"We are in the midst of new a wave of disruption that will redefine business and society. In every era, the organizations that succeed find new ways to capitalize on disruptive change. This timely book challenges leaders to rethink the components of decision-making and provides helpful frameworks and tools to support them with these endeavors."
-BRUCE CARNEGIE-BROWN, Former Chair, Lloyd's of London
"Strategy and Change meets the urgent need for new strategic approaches to the dynamic challenges and opportunities generated by rapid and radical technological change. This book will prove a valuable resource for business school students and working professionals, offering a comprehensive framework for understanding and leveraging disruption as a strategic advantage."
-DR. GEOFF GARRETT, Dean, USC Marshall School of Business
"Today's environment is equally challenging for entrepreneurs and established businesses. Success requires insight and pragmatic decision-making. This book unpacks what makes disruptors and incumbents successful, distilling their insights into a set of core practices that any leader can apply."
-MARIANNE MARKOWITZ, President and CEO, First Women's Bank
"So often as leaders we find ourselves falling into the daily trap of looking into the business rather than looking out for the business. In this book the authors provide much needed guidance to help leaders look out for the business. This book will guide how we look at risks as opportunities, how we navigate disruptive change and how we as leaders can distinguish between opportunities, quantify and navigate risks, and manage our way through a rapidly changing business world."
-DAN ARIENS, Chairman and CEO, Ariens Company
"This book provides a keen focus on practical applications around the ever-changing environment we operate in and the accelerated change cycles that we all experience. There is not a single answer to navigate strategic change in any organization and this book provides valuable insight into the different change levers that need to be considered to execute a successful strategic vision and manage the change that follows."
-DAVE YOUNGBERG, Senior Director, Strategy & Transformation, PepsiCo
