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Strategic Learning
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Strategic Learning

How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage

Willie Pietersen
Wiley, 2010

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

Strategy guru Willie Pietersen’s latest book lays out a path to a compelling goal: Use learning to create an adaptable organization that can continually adjust to today’s VUCA – “volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous” – business world. He outlines four steps for conducting your learning efforts strategically: “Learn” what you need to know, “focus” on priorities, “align” learning with your corporate goals, and “execute” with experimentation and flexibility. getAbstract recommends Pietersen’s manual as an essential guide to two critical organizational topics: learning and strategy.

Take-Aways

  • Strategy is vital to organizational success. Yet few executives can explain their organizations’ strategies.
  • Strategy includes both actions your firm takes and its decision not to take other actions.
  • Leaders must develop an organization that uses “learning and renewal” to adapt successfully to changing circumstances.

About the Author

Columbia University business management professor Willie Pietersen studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. He is former CEO of Lever Foods, Seagram USA and Tropicana.

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    J. M. 6 months ago
    Good
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    M. R. 11 months ago
    Interesting
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    K. P. 7 years ago
    Mr Pietersen and Mr Rumlet should getogether and write a masterclass on strategy. Then make it available to MBA students as a text book. One thing interesting though, in an VUCA market where public perception (which includes buying behaviours) gets constantly influenced by external perception, is there a place for business "models"? Hence my suggestion to write a master class and keep updating with evolutionary (more agile) business models. Regards Kutila Pinto