Aaron K. Olson

Strategy and Change: Finding Opportunity in Disruption Through Insight, Choice, and Risk Aaron K. Olson

Hone your ability to make strategic leadership decisions in a volatile and complex world

In the revised and updated edition of Leading with Strategic Thinking, a team of leadership and strategy experts deliver an incisive and engaging approach leaders can use to make better decisions and drive strategic change. Rooted in academic research and tested with over three thousand leaders around the world, this practical book reveals how the most effective leaders and organizations gain insight, make good choices, and manage risk.

Building on strategies introduced in their first book, Leading with Strategic Thinking, this new work offers the latest guidance on navigating the extreme volatility inherent in today's commercial markets, as well as new actions, strategies, and tools rooted in a four-part framework that helps match the right leadership approach to a given situation. You'll also find: Case studies featuring the hands-on, in-depth tactics real leaders use to handle a wide variety of contexts and situations Tools and techniques strategic leaders will find helpful as they address challenges inherent in volatile and uncertain environments Insights drawn from the latest research and thinking at leading universities Principles to inform a personal action plan for being more strategic in an increasingly uncertain world

A can't-miss resource for managers, executives, and other business leaders, the revised and updated edition of Leading with Strategic Thinking will also earn a place in the libraries of people just beginning a new career and consultants who regularly work with organizations and teams of all kinds.
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