Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action
Author
Rich Horwath
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
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The inability to set good strategy can sink a company - and a leader's career. A recent "Wall Street Journal" study revealed that the number one most sought after executive skill is strategic thinking, but only 3 out of 10 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, provideing you with a clear path to mastery of three disciplines:
Acumen - generate critical insights through a step-by-step evaluation of your business and its environment;
Allocation - focus your limited resources through strategic trade-offs;
Action - implement a system to guarantee effective execution and communication 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.
Reviews
As a business coach, I found Deep Dive to be an incredible teaching tool. The book was jam packed full of ways to help equip a business owner to develop a culture of strategy in their organization. I was so grateful for all the charts and worksheets the author provided and plan to use them to help my clients better design their business' strategic position.
I found the book technical to read but amazingly informative. From the time I picked it up I couldn't put it down as I was entralled with all the incredible ways to transition your mind set from operational focus to strategic focus. (I actually read it twice).
More than any other book on strategy, I will keep this as a reference tool and use it again and again with my own clients. I know I am a better business leader because of reading this book!
Reviewed on 08/05/2011 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Natasha Golinsky
