Strategy, Leadership and Change: a Practical Guide for Busy Executives

The book consists of four sections: Section one provides a background to systems thinking and strategic problem solving the philosophy on which the book is based. Section two highlights the issues involved in formulating and executing strategy. It also addresses the design of organisations which have the necessary capability to implement strategy successfully. Given that strategy is as much an art as it is a science, political and other concomitant intangible issues are covered....
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The book consists of four sections: Section one provides a background to systems thinking and strategic problem solving the philosophy on which the book is based. Section two highlights the issues involved in formulating and executing strategy. It also addresses the design of organisations which have the necessary capability to implement strategy successfully. Given that strategy is as much an art as it is a science, political and other concomitant intangible issues are covered. Section three addresses three aspects of leadership: the importance and nature of transformational leadership, the processes which leading global companies apply to build future leaders, and how to make leadership part of an organisation s DNA. Section four explores the concepts and general principles associated with change and the processes involved in the implementation of change strategies. It highlights the processes that go into reconfiguring organisations and addresses how leaders should work to build changeready, agile organisations. Terry Meyer is a consultant, academic, author and speaker. He has extensive consulting experience and specialises in strategy and organisational design, leadership, change and human capital strategy. In addition to extensive experience consulting to a variety of companies in these fields."