Choosing the Future / Edition 1

by Stuart Wells

Overview

Strategy requires an ability to conceive the future, see and create possibilities, and focus to choose a direction. Successful strategy is a mental discipline consisting of broad ranging, flexible, and creative thinking. Choosing the Future will help you achieve this success by studying fundamentals such as effective group thinking, knowing when to delay a decision for more information, balancing contrasting modes of thought, and transforming thought into action.

Using a cycle to show the relationship among different strategic thinking tools, Choosing the Future gives you guidance to respond to these basic questions:
What'seems to be happening?
What possibilities do we face?
What are we going to do about it?
Choosing the Future will help you advance your thinking skills. Rather than telling you what to do, it teaches you to use your business knowledge to discover your own ideas and strategic direction.

Stuart Wells is Professor of Organization and Management at San Jose State University, where he serves as Director of the Center for Global Competitiveness and as Director of the Small Business Institute. As founder of the Leading Edge Consulting Group and co-founder of Corporate Wisdom, he has worked on leadership development and strategy issues with such major corporations as Clorox, Dupont, PepsiCo, and Proctor and Gamble. He is the author of several books, including From Sage to Artisan: The Nine Roles of the Value-Driven Leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750698764
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/21/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stuart Wells

Table of Contents

To Think Or Not To Think? That Should Not Be A Question * Strategic Thinking Basics * There's Something Happening Here * Talking The Walk—Deciding What To Do * Walking The Talk—Doing What You Decide

Editorial Reviews

"In ' Choosing the Future ' Stuart Wells caused me the shudder with this simply profound sentence: ' Answers are death: questions are life '. Wow! Makes you think, doesn't it? And that's what you'll get form reading ' Choosing the Future ' - questions that make you think, questions that bring you to life. Questions send us on journeys in our minds, and Stuart Wells takes us on one Helluva fascinating voyage. If you really want to fire up your brain, you've got to read this book."
Jim Kouzes, co-author "The Leadership Challenge" and "Credibility"
Chairman and CEO
Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems

From the Publisher