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Mastering Strategy : Insights from the World's Greatest Leaders and Thinkers

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Mastering Strategy provides a way for executives and managers, who have expertise in other fields, to think about organizational design and strategy. The "template" is logical and organizes the complex organizational setting into a group of manageable categories for the purposes of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and evaluating.

Mastering Strategy deals with the fundamentals that are essential to moving an organization forward regardless of the other tools and models that may be applied along the way.

If an executive or manager needs a fundamental framework to think about strategy or wants a tool to further the strategic efforts in an organization, Mastering Strategy is a good place to start.

At last - a straight-forward, practical book on a subject so vitally important in today's challenging business environment. For over 25years, I have been actively engaged in strategic planning, both as a business owner and a consultant and have read countless books on the subject. MASTERING STRATEGY is the most comprehensive and, at the same time, readable of them all. Rigsby and Greco have done a masterful job of identifying the best practices of the world's most successful companies, relating their performance to specific strategic success factors, and developing a strategic planning model based on their research. Moreover, they have tested their ideas in the glaring light of the marketplace through their consulting practices and, in so doing, have demonstrated the efficacy of their model. I strongly recommend this book to anyone in a position of responsibility - or aiming for such a position - in any business, whether small, large or gigantic, as well as to consultants whose focus is on helping their corporate clients improve profitability. Your money and your time will be well invested!

Master Strategy by Jeff Rigsby and Guy Greco is a direct arrow targeted
on business, and as such, is an excellent guide. Every CEO in the
country should read it, and if not become more successful, become
enlightened and educated.

My take on this book is quite different. Rather than looking at it from
a business point of view, I see it as a book fitting into a smaller
niche as well...people's lives, particularly students.

If read in it's entirety by teachers and students, it would point the
way for their personal success. The book has it all. It talks about
issues of vision, assessing themselves internally, being aware and
checking their moves through life, how to organize, the importance of
continual learning. It's all there ...an individual's path of success.

I plan to use these strategies with my students, and in my own life.

Sandra Asper
Ensign Intermediate School
Newport Beach, CA

At last - a straight-forward, practical book on a subject so vitally important in today's challenging business environment. For over 25years, I have been actively engaged in strategic planning, both as a business owner and a consultant and have read countless books on the subject. MASTERING STRATEGY is the most comprehensive and, at the same time, readable of them all. Rigsby and Greco have done a masterful job of identifying the best practices of the world's most successful companies, relating their performance to specific strategic success factors, and developing a strategic planning model based on their research. Moreover, they have tested their ideas in the glaring light of the marketplace through their consulting practices and, in so doing, have demonstrated the efficacy of their model. I strongly recommend this book to anyone in a position of responsibility - or aiming for such a position - in any business, whether small, large or gigantic, as well as to consultants whose focus is on helping their corporate clients improve profitability. Your money and your time will be well invested!

After using a typical, traditional text for my grad class in Management and Strategy, I discovered Managing Strategy in Amazon. The book was an immediate hit with my students because of the way it distills concepts of strategy as presented in the typical textbook and relates them to the real world of organizations in a practical and readable fashion. I would highly recommend this work to students, faculty, and managers alike. The price is unbeatable and the buyer will have a source which can be used continually in the workplace. Perhaps this books sets a precedent for texts (although it is not the usual text) in other related fields. I would like to see such a format for organizational behavior and for leadership as well.

L. Gene Elliott, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Management
Webster University-Greenville, SC Campus
Greenville, SC

Mastering Strategy is a book that applies to the public manager as well. Those supervisors, managers, and executives of public and non-profit organizations can improve the services to their citizens and clients by implementing the Organization Dynamic model. We plan on adopting Mastering Strategy into our required reading list for our doctoral program.
Raymond Garubo, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Administration
Director, Doctoral Program in Public Administration
The University of LaVerne, LaVerne, California

Mastering Strategy by Rigsby and Greco is a truly exceptional piece, which nicely blends academic thought with actionable lessons. The authors manage to superbly tie in insights from some of the world's greatest leaders and make it relevant to any industry or discipline. By managing to coalesce theories and strategies of the finest minds, they proffer forth an Organization Dynamic Model that organizes diverse and specialized disciplines into a workable and understandable framework. Read it, understand it, and most importantly, learn from it. A definite must read for anyone even cursorily involved in strategy formulation or strategic execution.

This book does a great job of synthesizing the current state of business strategy thinking and introducing a model for practical application. I am using it in my business and having great success.