New Book Launch – the Chief Strategy Officer Playbook

The CSO Playbook showcases some of the very best thinkers and business leaders in the field of strategy implementation and beyond. Thinkers50 ranked and award-winning thinkers are featured including Anil Gupta, Haiyan Wang, Rita McGrath, Antonio Nieto Rodriguez, Alessandro Di Fiore and Julian Birkinshaw. The result is a unique and compelling collection of valuable experiences, research and insights and recommendations to help transform strategies into great results.

Table of contents

• Preface – Ricardo Viana Vargas
• Foreword – Joseph Cahill
• How strategy got here – Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove
• Why implementing strategy is like flying a kite – Rita Gunther McGrath
• Engineer strategy as a system – Eric Rebentisch & George Roth
• Ten questions to help you turn strategy into reality – Ricardo Viana Vargas & Edivandro Conforto
• Your change needs a strategy – Martin Reeves, Simon Levin, Jack Fuller & Fabien Hassan
• Five traps to avoid in strategy execution – Anil K. Gupta & Haiyan Wang
• Leading change in turbulent times Perry Keenan, Jeanne Kwong Bickford, Michelle Russell, Greg Meyding, Tapio Schrey & Connor Currier
• Why executives struggle to execute strategy – Ron Carucci
• The CSO in a diversified conglomerate – Nirmalya Kumar
• People are your Strategy – Claudio Garcia
• Creating the future, together – Philippa Hardman & Chris Nichols
• Agile planning – Alessandro Di Fiore
• Dear CSO – Julian Birkinshaw & Jonas Ridderstråle
• Embracing the future – Margaret Heffernan
• Difficult truths – Deborah Rowland
• Medium-Term Inc. – Dominic Houlder & Nandu Nandkishore
• The How tool for strategy implementation – Vlatka Hlupic
• Insights from NASA – Loizos Heracleous, Steven Gonzalez & Douglas Terrier
• Execution is a people problem, not a strategy problem – Peter Bregman
• Successful implementation begins with trust – Deepa Prahalad
• Four key points for successful strategy execution – Mohammed A. Alabbadi
• Managing complexity: Have we reached the tipping point? – Richard Straub
• Four types of strategy work: Choosing the right implementation approach – Josef Oehmen, Diana Velasco & Pelle Willumsen
• Building bridges rather than burning them: The new strategy of collaboration and growth – Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
• Strategy implementation: The Chinese way – Mark Greeven & Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
• How to use small wins to build trust – Andrew Shipilov
• Leading agility – Tina Moe
• Platform strategy: Creating a position of leadership in your industry ecosystem – Sangeet Paul Choudary

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