Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking

Unlike the majority of books that focus on strategy from a corporate perspective, Elevate gives the individual executive practical tools and techniques to help them become a truly strategic leader. Elevate provides the roadmap to reach the strategic leadership summit.. However, more than half of all companies say that strategic thinking is the skill their senior leaders most need to improve. The new framework that will enable leaders to finally integrate both strategy and innovation into a strategic approach that drives their profitable growth is the Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking: 1. Coalesce: Fusing together insights to create an innovative business model 2. Compete: Creating a system of strategy to achieve competitive advantage 3. According to a study published in Chief Executive Magazine, the most valued skill in leaders today is strategic thinking. Champion: Leading others to think and act strategically to execute strategy Every leader desperately wants to be strategic - their career depends on it. Elevate provides leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities

captiii said Not what I expected. If you are looking for a book on Advanced Strategic Thinking this is not it. This is about as basic as you get. If you know nothing about strategic thinking this book might be a good place to start as a basic primer.I read the positive reviews here and the ones included on the book cover and I wonder if these people actually read the book, and if so have they ever done anything strategic in their . Dan Coughlin said Practical and Powerful Ideas on Strategy. Rich Horwath has done what few others have done. He has made strategy clear, understandable, and practical. If you believe that simplicity is more powerful than complexity, then this is a great book for you. He explains three simple, but powerful ideas. A great strategy COALESCES around a single insight that will give your organization a real, meaningful advantage that matters to customers, it giv. Christopher Chalk said Stop, Read and ELEVATE. Elevate forced me to stop and consider; Are my day to day activities defined by a well thought out strategy to take our business to a higher level or am I simply a reactionary? It turns out like many business executives not enough of the former. Fortunately, Elevate provides a blue print on how to build on a more solid foundation. It offers an architecture for developing and executing strategy so