Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!

  • 1h 56m
  • Patrick J. Stroh
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2014

Embrace strategies for improving your business and reaching your organization's goals

In today's fast-moving and competitive business environment, strong leadership, insightful strategy, and effective innovation are critical links to staying ahead of your competition. Getting your business house in order can often be complicated, but does it really have to be? How do you take MBA 101 lessons, great models, and exceptional concepts and put them into play in the real world? Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! strives to answers these questions in an educational and entertaining format. Working as a Fortune 20 practitioner with C-level executives, author Patrick Stroh has a keen understanding of the role played by current day strategists.

With 5 chapters following the format of "All I Ever Needed to Learn About Business Strategy I Learned..." At the Movies, On the Farm, On Shark Tank, On Hell's Kitchen, and From the Bible, readers will gain valuable strategic insight regardless of industry, business maturity, or current business turbulence and how to apply these insights based on the factors impacting their own business. Each chapter ends with a One Chapter Conclusion, Two Gold Nuggets the reader is to write down and Three Additional Resources/Tools for more information, offering a practical roadmap to simplifying your success.

About the Author

PATRICK J. STROH is Principal at Mercury Business Advisors, a firm providing business management advisory services in areas such as Business Strategy, Operational Execution, Innovation, and Product Development. Prior to Mercury Business Advisors, he held multiple positions at UnitedHealth Group, including Senior Vice President and Client Experience Officer, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Senior Vice President Business Strategy, President Consumer Health Products, and Senior Director of Enterprise Risk Management.

In this Book

  • Evolution of Strategic Planning and Today's Role—Chief Strategy Officer
  • Emotional Intelligence—Being “Facilitative and Consultative”
  • Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned … from Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares
  • Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned … at the Movies
  • Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned … Growing up on a Farm
  • Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned … from the Bible
  • Everything I Needed to Learn about Business Strategy I Learned … from Shark Tank
  • The Strategy Toolbox and other References
  • Winning Checklist—How to Succeed in Business Strategy