| Description |
xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Growth Curve. At What Stage of Growth is your Company? (Analysis) -- 2. Breaking Through: Managing Transition to the Next Level. Your Company's Management Style (Analysis). The Growth Strategy Analysis -- 3. Market Intelligence -- 4. Strategic Leadership. Strategic Leadership Analysis. Leadership Challenge Analysis: How "Exposed" are you? Strategic Leadership Assessment -- 5. Clarity of Purpose. Exercise: What's your Story? Eavesdropping Exercise. Writing your Future Story -- 6. Strategic Planning -- 7. Internal Infrastructure. Exercise: How Organized is your Organization? -- 8. Staying One Step Ahead. The Next Level Online |
| Summary |
The Next Level shows managers how to make these creative and strategic leaps. Wood presents a wide variety of strategic and tactical tools, including the Growth Strategy Analysis, a powerful, field-tested diagnostic assessment that allows you to identify your organization's relative strengths and weaknesses and determine whether you're "behind the pack," "getting by," or "one step ahead," along five key variables - market intelligence, strategic leadership, clarity of purpose, planning, and internal infrastructure - and offers a wealth of practical guidance for mastering these critical elements |
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Through in-depth examples of such unusual and diverse companies as Group Publishing of Loveland, Colorado; Main Street Muffins of Akron, Ohio; and Discovery Toys of Livermore, California, Wood demonstrates that every organization reaches critical transition points that require fundamental changes, in systems and processes, capabilities and resources, philosophies and goals, and even management structures and leadership. Those who are willing to look forward to new challenges - not backward to past successes - are poised to take a leadership position in the marketplace |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
"Resources": pages 193-214 |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Growth.
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| Author |
Rothstein, Larry.
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| LC no. |
98089111 |
| ISBN |
0738200190 |
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