Author : J.-C. Spender
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107036194
Accessible and practical book providing a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed strategic conversations between management and employees.
Author : Chris Ertel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451697627
Two leading experts on designing strategic conversations unveil a simple, creative process that allows teams to tackle their most challenging issues. In our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great strategic conversations generate breakthrough insights by combining the best ideas of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. In this book, two experts “crack the code” on what it takes to design creative, collaborative problem-solving sessions that soar rather than sink. Drawing on decades of experience as innovation strategists—and supported by cutting-edge social science research, dozens of real-life examples, and interviews with well over 100 thought leaders, executives, and fellow practitioners— they unveil a simple, creative process that leaders and their teams can use to unlock solutions to their most vexing issues. The book also includes a “Starter Kit” full of tools and tips for putting the book’s core principles into practice.
Author : J.-C. Spender
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139992503
Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These 'strategic conversations' make employees partners in the strategy development process, engaging them to help shape the organization's future. The result is transformational: instead of strategy being a dry, periodic planning exercise for the few, it becomes a dynamic and continuous act of co-creation enriched by the many. Case studies illustrate how leading organizations have used strategic conversations to build sustained competitive advantage, create innovative business models, make better decisions under uncertainty, reduce the need for change management, and enhance employee engagement. The book will appeal to managers, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and teachers and students in schools of business and public administration.
Author : Gil Rendle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1566995469
Planning can be challenging in the contemporary congregation, where people share a common faith and values but may have very different preferences and needs. Much of the literature on congregational planning presents it as a technical process: the leader serves as the chief problem solver, and the goal is finding "the solution to the problem." Rendle and Mann equip congregational leaders with a broad and creative range of ideas, pathways, processes, and tools for planning. By choosing the resources that best suit their needs and context, congregations will shape their own strengthening, transforming, holy conversation. They will find a path that is faithful to their identity and their relationship with God. Resource materials are available to purchasers of the book. E-mail [email protected] for more information.
Author : David Kehe
Publisher : 외국어연수사
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9780866471893
What are Conversation Strategies? They are techniques that help the speaker and listener keep a conversation going to its natural and desired conclusion. They are skills that supplement the linguistic and sociolinguistic skills most texts focus on: grammar, vocabulary, and usage. To develop strategic competence, students must learn the words, phrases, and conventions used as two speakers engage in the active give-and-take of conversation. These are the strategies we use to get more information, make comparisons, correct someone politely, agree and disagree, summarize, share information, and make decisions in a business meeting. Students also practice polite forms, rejoinders, clarifications, follow-up questions, getting a response, expressing probability, interrupting, and avoiding conversation killers. Each activity has three parts: a teacher's introduction, a written introductory exercise to be done by students individually, and pair/group practice that makes us!e of information gap and other interactive formats. -- From product description.
Author : Gerardo R. Ungson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317469739
International business is undergoing continuous transformation as multinational firms and comparative management evolve in the changing global economy. To succeed in this challenging environment, firms need a well-developed capability for sound strategic decisions. This comprehensive work provides an applied and integrated strategic framework for developing capabilities that lead to global success. It is designed to help readers achieve three essential objectives. First, it provides intellectual and practical guidelines for readers to execute goals and strategies that lead to meaningful and productive results. The book is packed with frameworks, cases, anchoring exercises, techniques, and tools to help readers emerge with a completed business plan after the last chapter. Second, it focuses on strategy and how firms build competitive presence and advantages in a global context. A primary learning objective is to enable readers to understand and evaluate the major issues in strategy formulation and implementation in a global context. Third, it provides an accessible framework that will help guide readers in making strategic decisions that are sound and effective. It offers a unifying process that delineates the necessary steps in analyzing the readiness of a firm to do business abroad. In addition to core issues, each chapter presents frameworks, analytical tools, action-oriented items, and a real-world case - all designed to provide insights on the challenges imposed by globalization and technology on managers operating in a global context.
Author : Alan G. Lafley
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 142218739X
Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.
Author : Rich Horwath
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1608320332
Get competitive by learning to think strategically.The inability to set good strategy can sink a company¿and a leader¿s career. A recent Wall Street Journal study revealed that the most sought-after executive skill is strategic thinking, but only three out of ten managers have this skill set.Horwath explains the three keys to strategic thinking, breaks them down into simple, attainable skills, and gives you practical tools to apply them every day, providing managers with a clear path to mastery of the three disciplines: 1. Acumen¿generate critical insights through a step-by-step evaluation of your business and its environment2. Allocation¿focus your limited resources through strategic trade-offs 3. Action¿implement a system to guarantee effective execution of strategy at all levels of your organization Based on new research with senior executives from 150 companies and the author¿s experience as a thought-leading strategist, Deep Dive is the first book to focus on the most important level of strategy¿you. Armed with this knowledge and dozens of effective tools, you can become a truly strategic leader for your organization.--Rich Horwath is the president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, a former chief strategy officer, and professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. As a thought-leading strategist, he has worked with such giants as Adidas, Amgen, and Pfizer. He is the author of four books and more than fifty articles on strategic thinking and has been profiled in business publications around the world, including Investor¿s Business Daily.
Author : Susan Scott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780425193372
Fully revised and updated—the national bestselling communication skills guide that will help you achieve personal and professional success one conversation at a time. The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. In this guide, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to: • Overcome barriers to meaningful communication • Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family • Increase clarity and improve understanding • Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table • Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep level Includes a Foreword by Ken Blanchard, the bestselling co-author of The One Minute Manager
Author : Alixander Laffredo-Dietrich
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781092133340
Enhance your Conversation Confidence with 11 Strategic Conversation Frameworks! Do you find yourself frantically searching for what to say in a conversation? Do you feel trapped in silence in social situations? Do you understand the amazing VALUE of talking to people and want to learn how? With the right strategy and basic know-how of the elements of communication, the issue of "how to talk to people" will be a thing of the past, even if: -You are shy -You are introverted -You get nervous around people and social situations Alixander Dietrich knows a thing or two on learning how to talk to people. From a social hermit to conversational hero, he created strategies that assisted even the most reserved people to realize their communication potential. Imagine having Step-by-step formulas you can use in any conversation! This is not a book filled with canned one-liners or dishonest "tricks". Despite what many people say, such things do not work because conversations can go an infinite number of directions! Instead, this book teaches the foundations of communication and conversation and even provides amazing frameworks to use in numerous scenarios! In other words... This is about understanding what communication is made of and leveraging those elements to improve your execution of it! Now, learning to talk to people does not have to be an excruciating endeavor! The Quickest, Easiest Way to Always Know What to Say! What if, instead of scrambling around your head and agonizing to find the "right" words, you knew how to always have topics, that are relevant to the conversation, to draw from? What if instead of relying on bumbling one-liners that barely work in a handful of situations, you knew how to craft your thoughts on the spot? Being a savvy conversationalist offers the following benefits: -Confidence in conversations and social settings -Deeper relationships with people you've known your entire life or just met -Enhanced chances of success in scenarios that demand conversation skills such as dating, networking, and more! This book will teach you everything you need to be a fabulous communicator! It is NOT a specific look at any one particular type of communication (such as negotion, flirting, persuasion). "Communications Crash Course" IS a baseline in communication that will serve as a powerful foundation for whatever type of communication you engage in. Important areas that will be discussed include: -Elements of Communication -How Nonverbal and Verbal elements tie into each other -The effects of Context -Differences in types of Communication -Eleven Strategic Conversation Frameworks that you can use in any discussion and much more! This book is for YOU, if... You want to leave the frantic search for the "right thing to say" behind you and have knock-out communication skills! You want to fulfill your longing of being able to converse confidently with other people in any social setting You want to express yourself and truly connect with other people! Are you ready to start learning how to enhance your communications and conversation confidence RIGHT NOW? Get started by scrolling up and click the BUY Button
