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The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership Mike Freedman with Benjamin B. Tregoe McGraw-Hill, New York www.books.mcgraw-hill.com
Authors' Credentials: President of consulting company Kepner-Tregoe, serves on editorial hoard of the journal Strategic Direction; co-founder of Kepner-Tregoe, author of the book The Rational Manager.
Thesis: Corporate leaders must create both strategic literacy and a robust process to ensure strategic constancy.
Scope; 1970s through 2001.
File Under: Phase-in strategy.
Reason to Buy/Read: The foundation of the book is Kepner-Tregoe's five-phase model for strategy formulation and implementation. The authors provide examples of how the approach has been deployed at a organizations such as the Bank of Ireland, British Airways, Corning, Hallmark, Hong Kong's "Towngas," Kennametal, Lockheed Martin, the Royal Mail, the Savoy Group, and the British Labour Party.
Every reader who gets even a few chapters under his belt will come away with good questions to ask himself, his team, and his organization about what the strategy is, how it's being implemented, if it's time for a change, and how to go about changing it.
One of the goals of the book is...