ART AND DISCIPLINE OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

The strategy process Mike Freedman so ably discusses has been put to work at La-Z-Boy. You will come away from The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership better equipped to not only think more incisively about future competitive advantage, but your organization will have greater strategic focus at every level, beginning with the top management team.--Gerald L. Kiser, President & Chief Executive Officer, La-Z-Boy Incorporated




A powerful new approach to strategy setting from a worldwide leader in strategic thinking




Written by a leading consultant at Kepner-Tregoe, one of the worlds most respected strategy consulting groups, The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership goes far beyond most other strategy books to offer business strategists an integrated five-phase model for setting and implementing strategy.




Proven effective at a diverse range of organizations worldwide, the model provides executives with a powerful framework for assessing and tweaking current strategy, or charting a bold new strategic course.




Encompassing all the critical phases of the strategic process, The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership shows readers how to:





Gather and analyze strategic intelligence

Craft a strategy

Develop an implementation plan

Take action

Monitor progress and more




Throughout, key points are illustrated with case examples from a diverse range of organizations, including Hallmark, Hong Kong and China Gas, Lockheed Martin, Savoy Hotel Group, and others.

Mike Freedman is president of the worldwide strategy practice of consulting company Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. Freedman has lived and worked in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and has written numerous articles on strategy. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Strategic Direction.

Benjamin B. Tregoe is the co-founder of Kepner-Tregoe, Inc., a management-consulting firm with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Top Management Strategy, Vision in Action, The Culture of Success, the management classic The Rational Manager, and its sequel The New Rational Manager.