The Reality Test
Robert Rowland Smith
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Wirtschaft
Beschreibung
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.
More helpful are these practical questions that can help you plan what to do when your business comes into contact with reality. From learning the lessons of the past (rather than fixating on the future) to finding out what your business is really about, he explains the real-life factors that lead to success or failure. Including many new examples from the front line, from all around the world, The Reality Test will help you establish yourself as more effective and distinctive than your competitors, who follow the same rigid theoretical avenues.
Whether you ask 'Are you making enough of your weaknesses?' or 'Are you 100% productive 100% of the time?', it's time to stop living in strategy La-La Land and face reality.
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<p>Praise for Driving with Plato:<br><br>'
I regard Robert Rowland Smith as simply the most intelligent person I know. After reading this book you will understand why.
Smith has the suave wit of the professional intellectual.
Witty, inventive and intelligent
Not only will this book entertain you, educate you and amuse you, it may very well help you stay younger
<p>Robert Rowland Smith asks the practical questions that really matter to business<br> leaders - this book will do more than make you think, it will make you do<br> something</p>
By approaching the perennial problems of business through a highly original set of emotionally-charged questions, Smith brings an extraordinary array of insights to the challenges of management and leadership. Brilliant - a tour de force.
Intriguing...thought-provoking
Practical, wise and very much based in reality, this book will make anyone running a business a more shrewd, and probably a more successful, leader.
<i>The Reality Test </i>cuts through turgid corporate "leadership speak"
