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Demystifying Strategy: How to Become a Strategic Thinker
Author(s): Dr Tony Grundy (Author)
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Publication Date: 3 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0749465689
- ISBN-13: 9780749465681
Book Description
Demystifying Strategy provides you with not only the basic strategic tools and techniques but also a thorough understanding of the entire process of strategic thinking and management. Using tips, guidelines and exercises it helps you to assess your own strategic mind and covers key topics such as: the different perspectives on strategy, economic analysis, dynamic competitive positioning, designing and evaluating options, implementation, managing the strategy process and how to nurture your strategic mind. Aimed at executives, entrepreneurs and also students of management, it enables you to assess the teaching of strategy ‘gurus’, construct your own strategy audit and challenge thinking styles by assessing the cognitive processes involved in developing successful strategies.
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About the Author
Dr Tony Grundy is an internationally experienced, independent strategy consultant working with major corporations and organisations of all kinds of sizes. His clients include Barclaycard, Boots, BP, Diageo, Dyson Appliances, Easyjet, the Economist Group, Emirates Airlines, Ernst and Young, Financial Times, Ford, HSBC, KPMG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Pfizer, Tesco and Vodafone.
Tony Grundy currently teaches at Henley Business School and is Visiting Senior Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, where he has trained over 1,000 managers to make the shift from operational management to being strategic managers.
