Strategics: The Art and Science of Holistic Strategy - Hardcover

Cook, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567202780 ISBN 13: 9781567202786

Verlag: Praeger, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Most of what passes for strategic planning is not strategic at all. It is long-range planning or comprehensive planning, or in some cases just program or project planning. The result is a relinquishment of control to external conditions and circumstances, the perpetuation of obsolete systems, and organizational fragmentation and internal conflict. The opportunity to create new possibilities and realities―the ultimate object of strategy―is lost. Cook maintains that even to attempt strategy there must first be a strategic system, a system that deals with strategic issues, decision-making, and strategic action, which is preceded by strategic thinking. Cook combines these three aspects of strategy into a coherent, powerful concept that reinvigorates strategy with its original forceful meaning: strategos―to lead an army. In this way strategy becomes the means by which communities continuously create artifactual systems to serve extraordinary purposes. His book contains sound, pragmatic theory, original insights into strategic issues, and detailed hands-on guidance on all phases of strategic thinking, planning, and action. Cook explains that stragetics can be expressed as thinking, planning, and action. Strategic thinking will always embrace five arenas: the definition of strategy, the meaning of leaders and leading, the distinction between condition and cause, the nature of systems, and the characteristics of organizations. Strategic planning, as a currently popular management practice, is not what it was originally. The definition has changed. The only definition that captures the original intent is: the means by which a community of people create artifactual systems to serve extraordinary purposes. Dr. Cook points out that strategic action is seldom included in any contemporary intepretation or application of strategy, yet action is both the realization of strategy and the creation of new possibilities beyond strategy. In that sense, strategic action is the end and the beinning of strategics. Thus, Cook takes the traditional idea of strategic planning, infuses it with strategic thinking, and carries it to strategic action. Instead of merely improving what already exists, organizations can create new systems that are capable of what he calls constant emergence―always vital, always creative.

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WILLIAM J. COOK, JR., is founder and chief executive officer of The Colonial Cambridge Group, a consulting firm in Montgomery, Alabama, that specializes in strategic planning, design, and organization throughout the public and private sectors./e Dr. Cook is the author of several other books and numerous articles, and has had his own daily radio commentary broadcast to more than 70 cities throughout the Southeast.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1567202780
• ISBN 13: 9781567202786
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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