Get Out of The Weeds: How Effective Executives Make Strategic Time

“Vince knows what ‘Best Managed’ leadership looks like and he’s a true expert at getting it out of senior executives and their teams.”—Peter Brown, Global Leader, Best Managed Companies Program and author of Power of the Best: Innovative Strategies from Canada’s Best Managed Companies

“Among the best executive coaches and teachers I’ve seen.”—Rob Crosbie, Chairman, Crosbie Group of Companies

“A long, proven track record of helping CEOs elevate the performance of their executives and senior team...helps effective, successful people get even better.”—Mathew Harris, Managing Partner, Deloitte Private

“A true expert and trusted advisor. His approach is practical, useful, and always insightful.”—George Soleas, CEO, Liquor Control Board of Ontario

Are you stuck in the weeds?

At a time when organizational disruption is rampant and better strategic foresight and execution is needed more than ever, the vast majority of executives struggle to get out of the weeds. Try as they might, they can’t make strategic time – the time needed for strategic thinking and creation of long-term value for their organizations and themselves.

Get Out of the Weeds provides a host of proven ideas for making and maintaining strategic time. In this book, you’ll learn:

• Why it’s imperative that executives make strategic time
  
• The organizational and personal forces that drive so many good executives into the weeds
  
• Four simple things effective executives consistently do to make and maintain strategic time
  
• Multiple tools and techniques for making strategic time starting today
  
• Tips on how to make the creation of strategic time part of your daily routine and a step-by-step process for getting back on track when you fail