Strategic leadership is one of the most used and abused phrases in today's corporate lexicon. The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership removes the theory and guesswork to reveal strategic leadership for what it really is: guiding an organization to establish a framework within which it will make choices to determine its future nature and direction.

In this thoughtful, pragmatic book, international strategic advisers Mike Freedman and Benjamin Tregoe draw on their extensive experience with leading consulting firm Kepner-Tregoe. Along with examples of successfully implemented approaches from Hallmark International, British Airways, Lockheed Martin, the Bank of Ireland, and many others, they outline a five-phase plan you can use to:
o Gather and analyze intelligence, craft a strategic vision, develop
implementation plans, take action, and monitor results
o Secure consistency in strategic decision-making throughout your
organization
o Dodge the currently popular—but potentially fatal—trend toward
strategic short-termism

As you read these words, your competitors are formulating their own strategies and adopting and adapting your most innovative ideas for their own purposes—to trump your products, steal your customers, and capture your place in the value chain. Your defense? Accept the inevitable obsolescence of your current thinking, formulate and implement a self-renewing strategy, and regain the upper hand in the battle for competitive survival.

Today’s uncompromising environment leaves you little choice. Every day, with every decision you make, you must improve your firm’s strategic performance. Let The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership introduce you to a disciplined approach to creating and implementing results-based strategy, by providing tools and techniques for you and your team to discard outmoded standards, think the unthinkable, and implement a fluid and flexible strategy to drive extraordinary business results.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1 Beyond Vision
Ch. 2 Strategic Leadership: What It Really Takes
Ch. 3 From Data to Wisdom
Ch. 4 Strategy Formulation: The Initial Parameters
Ch. 5 Strategy Formulation: The Power of Driving Force
Ch. 6 Strategy Formulation: Completing the Roadmap
Ch. 7 The Bridge to Implementation
Ch. 8 Strategic Master Project Planning
Ch. 9 Implementation: Aligning the Infrastructure
Ch. 10 Implementation: Aligning Strategy, Culture, and Performance
Ch. 11 Implementation: Communicating Strategy
Ch. 12 Keeping It Evergreen: Strategy Renewal
Ch. 13 Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
Ch. 14 Lessons for Strategic Leaders

Endnotes
Index