Strategy Builder: How to Create and Communicate More Effective Strategies

by Stephen Cummings, Duncan Angwin

An interactive guide to building and communicating strategies that actually work YOUR STRATEGY HAS SEVEN SECONDS TO CAPTIVATE ITS AUDIENCE . . . So how are you going to present it? A big wordy document? A lengthy address? Slides full of bullet points? The best way to engage and involve people is through pictures. Strategy Builder shows you how to creatively combine the best strategy frameworks to orient and animate strategy discussion and development in your team. This interactive guide uses real world examples and practical tips to help you: Discover the five key foundations that every strategy should be built upon Draw compelling and unique pictures that capture your organization’s distinct strategies Develop your skills as a leader of strategy discussions Understand how to use interactive drawing to engage others and achieve ‘buy in’ Test your strategic vision or develop a new strategic plan based on the best elements of key strategic frameworks by trying the FREE interactive Strategy Builder app, developed in association with StrategyBlocks.

Genres: Leadership, Business

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 2014

Reviews

[Sara (onourshelves) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

I think this book was valuable in two ways for someone who is trying to learn about strategic planning: it name drops a lot of different strategies throughout, which helped open up my strategic planning research, and it heavily addressed the ending presentation of a strategic plan (simple, visual, generally accessible). That aspect I think is helpful for framing and for looking ahead to the final strategic plan, but the majority of this work was very repetitive and only kind of informative.