Strategic Thinking for Leaders, the Systems Thinking Approach

Summary

"One cannot lead who doesn't first know how to follow," states founder of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management Stephen Haines in his latest collaboration, Strategic Thinking for Leaders - A Systems Thinking Approach: 50 One-Minute Leadership Tips. This quick and easy guide provides business and organizational leaders and listeners with 50 best leadership practice tips for everyday use from nine Haines Centre strategic management experts that share more than 50 years of experience in the field.   Strategic Thinking for Leaders delivers hands-on tools for moving from one's current state of chaos and complexity to the more simplistic, ideal future. By using the universal organizing framework of the ABCs of strategic thinking, listeners are given the strategies to visually plan their future and focus on their road to success. This ABCs template employs the backward thinking approach that begins by stating the ideal future or desired outcome of the organizational or business leader and then works backward in planning how to get there, while anticipating any changes and obstacles that may be encountered along the way, also known as the roller coaster of change. As Haines likes to point out, planning and change are the primary responsibility of today's leaders.   Strategic Thinking for Leaders lists essential characteristics for successful leadership and gives specific examples that illustrate their necessity. It presents two goals necessary for every leader or aspiring leader to focus on in order to be successful and utilize the 50 best practice tips:  Develop an in-depth understanding of and immersion in leadership. Apply that understanding to lifelong learning and specific leadership skill development.   The six natural levels of leadership competencies in this book are based on the seven levels of living systems. 

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