Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership

Complex challenges are all around us - they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today's leaders need to understand how to design and guide effective collaborations to accelerate innovation and change - collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations.

Strategic Doing offers an important guide to navigating this new world. Designed to be practical, the book introduces ten skills that anyone can learn. The skills have been successfully adopted by executives, managers, university administrators, government officials, students, community leaders, and others from a variety of disciplines.

The book's authors are both practitioners and teachers of Strategic Doing, helping others to master the skills. Solidly based in research, Strategic Doing explains each of the skills in detail and clearly illustrates how individual skills are used as part of an effective collaboration.

Filled with compelling case studies, the book provides guidance about how to get started using the ten skills and illustrates how a particular skill was critical in a targeted situation. The authors also reveal how the skills can be combined to amplify their effectiveness, and more generally, how to use the skills in a wide range of situations.

Strategic Doing outlines a new discipline of leadership strategy specifically designed for open, loosely-connected networks.

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