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Don't Jump to Solutions: Thirteen Delusions That Undermine Strategic Thinking (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

Don't Jump to Solutions: Thirteen Delusions That Undermine Strategic Thinking (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

by ROUSE (Author), William B. Rouse (Author), Cedric Crocker (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1998

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Synopsis

Strategic planning expert William Rouse cuts to the heart of the most common causes of failed business plans and strategies and shows how to overcome them. He encourages strategic thinkers and planners to spend much more time analyzing a situation instead of jumping to ready solutions. The tone is tongue-in-cheek, but the keen observations and sage advice Rouse offers aptly address a serious subject. It's a fast-track primer in critical thinking and evaluation planners and managers at every level can use to approach their work more effectively.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 208
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 09 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 078790998X
ISBN 13: 9780787909987

Media Reviews
Powerful, pragmatic, and jolting. A guide for how not to gettrapped in one's own beliefs or those of the organization. (JohnSeely Brown, chief scientist and director, Xerox PARC, and authorof Seeing Differently)

Somehow Bill Rouse always seems to read my mind. His books give mea new perspective for my thinking on the very problems that aredeviling our business right then. This latest treatise is noexception! (Thomas R. Oliver, chairman and CEO, Holiday InnWorldwide)

This is a powerful and practical handbook for organizationalconsultants as well as business leaders. (Joyce L. Shields, Ph.D., managing director, Hay Management Consultants)

William Rouse has done an excellent job of identifying the key?delusions' that often undermine strategic thinking. Moreimportantly, he has developed a number of insightful strategies formoving beyond them. (John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., CEO, American CancerSociety)

Those submitting strategic planning to the dictate of firmlyestablished assumptions will find, while reading this book, thenecessity and the courage to fundamentally reconsider thosepremises. (Christoph Meier, managing director, CIM Center ofWestern Switzerland)
Author Bio
WILLIAM B. ROUSE is chief executive officer of Enterprise Support Systems, an Atlanta--based software company that produces a wide range of software systems and tools. An educator and author of several books--including Start Where You Are (Jossey--Bass, 1996)--he is also an experienced consultant who helps companies develop and implement strategic plans. He lives in Dunwoody, Georgia.