Playing the Strategy Game: Strategy Is a Skill Not a Formula, Make It One of Yours - Hardcover

Thurbin, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273654241 ISBN 13: 9780273654247

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 1865

Synopsis

(Pearson Education) Text offering businesspeople ways to develop strategy as a skill within themselves and their organizations. Offers encouragement to empower the reader to identify and trust intuition in the strategy game, showing how the game is played by individuals who make themselves skilled players.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick J. Thurbin is Principal Business Consultant and Strategy Lecturer at the Business School, Kingston University in the UK. He combines a wide range of consulting assignments in national and multinational organizations with research and lecturing at the University. His activities provide an exposure to leading business thinking and practices in many cultures, industries and organizations. He is a Director of the well-established Open Learning MBA program at the University, leading the team that teaches business strategy; he has lectured as a Visiting Professor in Management at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA; and in business strategy at the prestigious Academy of National Economy in Moscow, Russia.

Patrick's research on ways in which business growth can be supported by leveraging organizational knowledge is extensive. His book Leveraging Knowledge (FT Prentice Hall) provides an international benchmark in this area. A determination to promote a critical approach in the strategic thinking used by managers resulted in the publication of the ground breaking text The Influential Strategist (FT Pitman, 1998). This championed the use of key organizational paradoxes to diagnose and harness the tensions within organizations that create winning strategies. His consulting activities range over industries as diverse as aerospace, retail and distribution, software development and civil engineering, where innovative approaches to business growth is the main focus.

Before becoming an academic and author, Patrick spent some 20 years working in the UK, Europe and the USA, gaining practical management and business experience in design, production, research and information systems development.

From the Back Cover

Today's intensely competitive business environment places extreme pressure on managers. Success comes to those who become skilled at effective strategic thinking and behavior.

Playing the Strategy Game establishes the link between personal and corporate strategic agendas. It provides a clear guide to becoming a strong performer in the competitive game of business. The business game is still played at both the operational and strategic level. The ambitious manager, who wants to live and succeed in this complex but rewarding world, has to gain an effective set of generic skills.

Getting personal with strategy, you will

• understand strategic thinking and the strategy process
• create better strategies more quickly
• create the appropriate strategies for you and your business
• communicate and win support for your strategy
• develop your own strategic sense and imagination
• make your strategic radar more reliable
• link your corporate and personal strategic agendas
• become a smarter strategist

Create your own strategy rather than living someone else's.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Publication date: 1865
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273654241
• ISBN 13: 9780273654247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221