Be More Strategic in Business
Take Your Leadership to the Next Level With This Award-Winning Business Book
“If you've ever been told to "be more strategic" and wondered how to do it, this is the book for you.” —Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author, Triggers and What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- Winner, 2018 Foreword Indies, Adult Nonfiction/Career
- Award Finalist, 2018 Best Book Awards, Business/Careers
- Winner, 2019 International Book Awards, Business/Careers
- Winner, 2019 Discovery Award, Best First Book/Nonfiction
- Honorable Mention, 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award, Business
Discover a proven approach to strategic leadership from Diana Thomas and Stacey Boyle, two distinguished business-women with decades of business coaching experience and insights.
Strategic leadership is essential to business success. Strong leaders are those who successfully navigate a great shift: from tactical doer to strategic leader. Regardless of your industry, line of business, or sector, your organization desperately needs strategic leaders. A strategic leader is tuned in to the needs of the business, understands how actions impact corporate objectives, and uses data to make smart decisions. Whether you’re leading a department team or running your own company, a strategic leader clearly propels business performance.
In Be More Strategic in Business you’ll learn how to:
- Develop your strategic skills
- Set meaningful direction
- Build a strategic plan
- Make decisions to win
If you have read books such as HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically, Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Opportunity Leadership, Outthink the Competition, or Winning the Long Game, you will want to read Be More Strategic in Business.
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Book details
- Author
- Diana Thomas, Stacey Boyle
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Business & Economics › Leadership
Business & Economics › Training
Business & Economics › Human Resources & Personnel Management
Business & Economics › Decision-Making & Problem Solving - Topics
- strategic thinking · business leadership · decision-making · strategic planning · human resources · professional development · women in business
- ISBN-13
- 9781633537842
About the authors
DIANA THOMAS is a certified Marshall Goldsmith stakeholder executive and team coach and host of the Talent Champions podcast.
Thomas spent her career at McDonald’s USA, rising from crew member in 1979 to Vice President of Training, Learning & Development, where she oversaw Hamburger University. Under her leadership, McDonald’s USA was ranked #2 as a Learning Elite Organization by Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2014 she received that magazine’s Norman B. Kamikow Learning Leadership Award. She holds an MBA.
Diana lives in Naples, Florida.
STACEY BOYLE is President and Chief People Planner of Smarter People Planning, LLC, with over twenty years leading global consulting and research departments.
Boyle holds a Ph.D. in Applied Behavioral Research and Evaluation from Oklahoma State University, where she received a NASA fellowship. She previously served as VP of Client Services at Vestrics and VP of Research for MediaTec Publishing, where she created the LearningElite benchmarking program.