Krupp Steven - Winning the long game : how strategic leaders shape the future

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Winning the Long Game

Given the disruption in our industry, developing the strategic capability of our leaders is a major focus for us. Winning the Long Game offers a clear path to build strategic thinking in a very digestible style.

ANNE BOWERMAN, vice president, executive development, Thomson Reuters

I loved the anecdotes, from so many angles. Finally, a book on strategic leadership that is grounded in real word situations! This is definitely a practical, insightful, easy-to-read guide to becoming a better strategist and more effective leader.

JEAN-PIERRE GARNIER, former chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline and current chairman of Actelion Inc.

In the global wealth management industry, leadership comes from those who have successfully advised clients and then step up to lead others across diverse markets and teams. Our challenge remains to convert star performers into strategic leaders. Winning the Long Game provides a clear roadmap to that end.

NICK GORNALL, managing director, head of learning and professional development, Coutts/Royal Bank of Scotland

Success in business requires agile leaders adapting to a changing world, especially in banking. Steven Krupp and Paul Schoemaker offer a comprehensive yet practical approach providing insight and advice on the disciplines leaders must master to thrive today and in the future.

ALEX HILLER, head of leadership and organizational development, UBS

Delivering results in an uncertain world calls for seeing ahead, thinking long term, and navigating sharp, inevitable curves. Strategic leadership is a necessary rather than optional skill to create high sustainable performance. The authors have done a great job of decoding this skill for everyday use in a compelling and useful manner. This important book, combining strategy and leadership, makes it one of a kind.

RAGHU KRISHNAMOORTHY, vice president, executive development and chief learning officer, General Electric

Winning the Long Game weaves keen insights about strategic leadership, fun stories, and very practical tips into a power packed narrative sure to raise any leaders game. My COO devoured it and thought we could apply many of the recommended actions immediately. A must read.

FRED KRUPP, president, Environmental Defense Fund

One of the dilemmas that chief executives face is finessing the competing challenges of delivering results both in the short term and over the long term. Winning the Long Game provides invaluable insights as to how to negotiate this trade-off to great effect. Stories based on real events and situations where executives have reconciled these competing priorities illuminate how to navigate the rougher seas of corporate life successfully. This is a compelling and extremely useful book, not only for chief executives but for all leaders who face these decisions.

QUINTIN PRICE, senior managing director, global head of alpha strategies, and global executive committee, BlackRock

The authors take a complex concept and neatly unpack what it means to be strategic. The wisdom, insights, and stories jump off the page, showing leaders how to navigate through uncertain terrain. This can be a game changer for those who take the advice to heart and distinguish themselves as strategic leaders.

JUAN CARLOS RIVERO, chief talent officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies

As the business landscape has been changing dramatically in our industry, truly strategic thinking has become more critical than ever for continued growth. Winning the Long Game provides a practical playbook for senior and high potential leaders to increase their strategic aptitude and business impact.

WILLIAM STRAHAN, executive vice president, human resources, Comcast Cable

Krupp and Schoemaker have produced a practical, readable guide for developing the mental habits and reflexes that undergird visionary leadership. Leaders with strength in all six of the skills they identify are needed at all levels of the organization to create competitive advantage in todays ever-shifting global economy. They are the central nervous system of the dynamic capabilities of the firm and will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners alike.

DAVID J. TEECE, professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; chairman and principal executive officer, Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Thinking in time sounds easy but is really hard. In this masterful synthesis, we learn whyand learn how to cope more effectively with a Black-Swan/Gray-Swan world.

PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Annenberg University professor, department of psychology and Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Steven Krupp and Paul Schoemaker make a captivating case for strategic leadership, thinking broadly and acting decisively. Through extended accounts of strategic actions by leaders ranging from Teslas Elon Musk to Legos CEO and even Pope Francis, Winning the Long Game offers a tangible and comprehensive playbook for becoming a strategic leader when it really matters.

MICHAEL USEEM, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

This important strategic leadership book captures exactly what we are doing at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, from the ability to think strategically long term to enacting game changing new practices in cancer care that place the patient truly at the center of all our activities. We are re-imagining cancer care and our leaders need to master the six strategic disciplines laid out so clearly and practically in this highly engaging booka must read for any strategic leader and those aspiring to be one.

GERARD VAN GRINSVEN, CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Winning the Long Game hits the mark. Its a compelling read with engaging stories and practical tips. The integrated view of the six disciplines in the context of ambiguous and uncertain times differentiates Winning the Long Game from other work in the leadership development arena. Leaders who want to be more strategic will eat this up and organizations will surely benefit from the impact it will inspire. We have tracked success cases from the work weve done with Decision Strategies International to develop outside in and future back perspectives to improve decision-making in critical commercial roles. This book brings new lessons and fresh ideas about how to build strategic leadership capability in any organization.

THERESA ZELLER, executive director, learning and development, Merck Manufacturing

Winning the Long Game helps us move from execution to strategy, and back. The down-to-earth stories and how to tips about what strategic leaders do, and the traps to avoid, offer practical advice to our leaders. he stories make the reading fun and the ideas pop.

LESLIE TEICHGRAEBER, vice president of PepsiCo University

To our many clients, colleagues, and partners from whom we learned so much about leadership in the real world. We hope this book will help them become even more strategic in how they lead and serve their teams or organizations.

Copyright 2014 by Steven Krupp and Paul J. H. Schoemaker.

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