Strategic Thinking:
A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for
Managers and Marketers
Now in its third edition, Strategic Thinking, takes you step by step
through the questions to ask, in order to formulate strategies and write clear and concise
strategic plans.
Based on three core actions - creating knowledge, innovating ideas and
implementing change - Strategic Thinking consists of hundreds of examples and advice on:
how to gain a deeper understanding of your market; how to develop a strategic vision; how
to think critically about proposals; how to survive and thrive in a recession; how to
implement and manage strategic changes.
With online material to support each step and strengthen your ability to
predict future changes, a section covering key aspects of leadership and
neuroscience; and prompt sheets, action plans and useful summaries, this fully updated
third edition is an all-in-one strategy manual for marketers, leaders, managers and
business students.
Table of Contents
Preface
About this book
PART I. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Section 1 Strategic leadership
Strategic leadership and conversational style
Section 2 Strategic leadership – brain-based communication
Section 3 Strategic leadership – the thinking skills required
Case Study Marketing leadership and management action
PART II. STRATEGIC THINKING – THE 9S© APPROACH
Step 1 Gather strategic intelligence
Step 2 Assess strategic capability
Step 3 Create strategic knowledge
Step 4 Make strategic predictions
Step 5 Develop strategic options
Step 6 Create strategic options
Step 7 Take strategic decisions
Step 8 Create and communicate market-led strategy
Step 9 Plan and manage project to implement change
PART III. THE NEXT STEPS
Next Steps
Final thought
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
References and recommended reading
Index
160 pages, Paperback