Strategic Learning

Strategic Learning

How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage

Pietersen, Willie

John Wiley & Sons Inc

04/2010

256

Dura

Inglês

9780470540695

15 a 20 dias

532

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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

The New Competitive Context xiv

Winning in the New Environment xvi

Reinventing Strategy with Strategic Learning xvi

Why This Book? xviii

Getting to Excelling xix

Part I What Every Organization Needs to Know About Strategy 1

Chapter 1 The Real Job of Strategy 3

What Is Strategy? 5

What Key Questions Must Strategy Answer for Us? 6

Choice-Making in Action 8

Strategy and Planning Are Different 12

Closing the Doing/Excelling Gap 14

Chapter 2 Defining Competitive Advantage: How Much More Value Do You Deliver Than Your Competitors? 15

Mind the Gap 16

Stretching the Elastic Band 18

GM's Race to the Bottom 21

Value Leadership through a Winning Proposition 24

What's Your Winning Proposition? 26

The Moment of Truth 27

Part II Applying Strategic Learning to Create An Adaptive Enterprise 31

Chapter 3 Strategic Learning: Four Key Steps, One Cycle 33

Do You Have a Robust Method? 34

What Were We Thinking? 35

The Theory of Natural Selection 37

Complexity Theory 39

Learning Organizations 39

Strategy's New Mission 40

The Five Killer Competencies 40

The Strategic Learning Cycle 41

What We've Learned from Deming 42

Building Capability through Deliberate Practice 43

Chapter 4 Learn: Using a Situation Analysis to Generate Superior Insights about Your External Environment and Your Own Realities 47

The ''Sense and Respond'' Imperative 48

Learning through the Situation Analysis 49

Analyzing Customer Needs 51

Who Are Our Stakeholders and Why Do They Matter? 59

Analyzing Competitors 63

Interpreting Industry Dynamics 66

Taking a Broader View 68

Facing Your Own Realities 69

Pulling Together the Situation Analysis 73

Winning the Battle for Insights 75

Doing a Great Situation Analysis: The Rules of Success 78

Chapter 5 Focus: Clarifying Your Winning Proposition and Identifying Your Key Priorities 81

Making Your Strategic Choices 81

The Parmenides Fallacy 83

Value Proposition versus Winning Proposition 87

Where Does Your Vision Fit In? 90

Delivering Superior Profits 90

The Three Bottom Lines 93

Your Key Priorities 95

How the Girl Scouts Did It 99

Deciding What Not to Do 103

Chapter 6 Align: Mobilizing Your Entire Organization behind Your Strategy 109

Leading a Journey 110

The Golden Rules of Successful Execution 112

Closing the Gaps 113

The Business Ecosystem 119

Changing an Organization's Culture 125

Avoiding the Values Trap 131

Chapter 7 Overcoming Resistance to Change and Driving Momentum 135

Dealing with the Sources of Resistance 137

The Lessons of the Sigmoid Curve 138

The Curse of Success 139

Launching the Second Curve 142

Maximize Participation 146

Generate Short-Term Wins 149

Deal Directly with Resisters 150

Set a Shining Example 154

Chapter 8 Translating Your Strategy into a Compelling Leadership Message 157

What Is Leadership? 160

Building a Cathedral 161

Commander's Intent 162

Who Are the Leaders? 163

Developing Your Leadership Message 165

The Power of Storytelling 167

The Need for Repetition 169

Chapter 9 Execute: Implementing and Experimenting in the Strategic Learning Cycle 171

Learning through Experimentation 172

Learning from Others 174

Learning from Mistakes 175

Experiential Learning: The After-Action Review 176

Strategic Learning 365 Days a Year 179

Part III Integrating Strategy and Leadership 181

Chapter 10 Leading through a Crisis 183

Dealing Successfully with the Unexpected 184

Learning Your Way Out of a Crisis 186

Building Readiness 188

Seizing Opportunities during a Crisis 190

The Human Dimension 191

Chapter 11 Becoming an Integrated Leader 195

The Three Domains of Leadership 196

Articulating Your Leadership Credo 199

The Quest for Self-Knowledge 201

The Lifeline Exercise 202

Applying Strategic Learning to Yourself 206

Conclusion The 5 Cs: Choices, Clarity, Change, Courage, and Compassion 211

The Five Cs 213

Appendix 217

Notes 219

Index 225
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William pietersen, willie pietersen, strategic learning, reinventing strategy, corporate strategy, developing business strategies