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Moments of Impact
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Moments of Impact

How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change

Simon & Schuster, 2014 más...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Meetings and brainstorming sessions have long been the standard settings for planning and strategy. But meetings put people to sleep, and brainstorming simply doesn’t work. Strategic conversations – “interactive strategic problem-solving sessions” – are the perfect planning venues. During the past 15 years, authors Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon planned and implemented hundreds of strategic conversations for companies in more than 20 industries, and now they explain how these conversations work. getAbstract recommends their innovative method to leaders who must make difficult decisions, entrepreneurs who work with boards and investors, agents of social change, and business-school faculty and students.

Take-Aways

  • Business today operates in “VUCA World” – “an environment of nonstop volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.”
  • This environment often presents “adaptive challenges” – game-changing dilemmas that prove difficult to figure out and arduous to solve.
  • To address today’s challenges, use “strategic conversations” to leverage your organization’s most imaginative, flexible thinking.

About the Authors

Chris Ertel is a strategy consultant to senior executives of Fortune 500 companies. Lisa Kay Solomon works with executives to design better futures through innovation leadership.


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