Product Description

Strategy Espresso packs powerful bursts of business insight into short, practical shots of concepts, tools and frameworks that you can immediately use to successfully grow your business. In this high-content and engaging discussion of the key aspects of business strategy, you ll find topics such as: The Seven Sins of Strategy The Power of No Strategic Innovation: Putting Your Money Where Your Mind Is Strategic Planning: Stopping the Zombie in its Tracks Competitive Advantage: We re Number One!? Strategystasis: Blowing Up Business As Usual Strategy Execution: Having Your Ferrari and Driving it Too

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1910969 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
Strategy Espresso serves up a variety of practical tools and concepts that will give leaders at all levels new ways to profitably grow their business. Rich has the rare ability to take complex strategy topics and extract their essence in an engaging and entertaining way. The result is a clear path to becoming a truly strategic leader. --Andrew de Guttadauro, Vice President, Commercial Development, Vical Inc.

About the Author
Rich Horwath is the founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, helping organizations achieve competitive advantage through strategic thinking. He is the author of two previous books: Sculpting Air: The Executive s Guide to Shaping Strategy and Storm Rider: Becoming a Strategic Thinker. Rich is a former Chief Strategy Officer and serves as a professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. As an international thought leader in the area of strategic thinking, Rich has worked with Fortune 500 companies located in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. He helps leader s develop their strategic thinking skills and guides executive management teams through the strategy development process. His monthly publication entitled Strategic Thinker is read by thousands of business leaders and academicians worldwide. He is a highly sought after speaker, blending the rare combination of high-level strategy content with a dynamic and engaging presentation style. A leader in the field of strategic thinking, Rich has designed a number of proprietary strategy tools to help executives profitably grow their business. Those tools include the following: Strategist Development System® a comprehensive blended learning approach to helping managers develop their strategic thinking competencies through group workshops, practical application exercises and one-to-one strategic counsel. StrategySphere System® a strategic thinking software program that contains more than 50 models used to generate business insights. StrategyPrint® a two-page blueprint for the business containing the key strategic insights and action plan to achieve the organization s goals. Strategic Thinking Diagnostic Tool a 50 question assessment to determine a manager s baseline strategic thinking competency. Rich earned an MBA with Distinction from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and has completed post-graduate courses in strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He resides in Barrington Hills, Illinois.