Paid to think : a leader's toolkit for redefining your future : achieve more, earn more, live more /
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Author / Creator: | Goldsmith, David. |
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Imprint: | Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, c2012. |
Description: | xvii, 654 p. : ill. ; 26 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9132364 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction You're Paid to Think
- The Value of Thinking
- Chapter 1. Enterprise Thinking
- Your Challenges Are Universal
- What Enterprise Thinking Means to You and Your Organization
- An Overview of the Enterprise Thinking Categories and Corresponding Activities
- The Universality of Enterprise Thinking
- The 50,000-Foot Perspective
- An Underlying Precept That Improves Decision Making
- The Benefits of Interplaying Concepts and Tools
- What's Ahead
- Chapter 2. Rethinking
- Challenging Your Current Viewpoints
- Untying the Knot
- Category 1. Strategizing
- Chapter 3. Developing Plans
- Part I. Creating Strategy
- The Process of Strategic Thinking
- From Thought to Reality: How Do You Create a Successful Strategy?
- Using the CST Model to Develop Plans
- Solving the Right Challenges by Asking the Right Questions: Redefining
- The Critical Path Method (CPM) Chart: A Tool for Building Superior Tactical Plans
- Part II. Transforming With Projects
- How Projects Fit into the CST Model
- The Tools Leaders Use to Fulfill Their Project-Related Roles
- Doing Projects Right: Directing Everyone toward Desired Outcomes
- Two Fatal Mistakes
- Part III. Managing Your Priorities
- Managing Time
- Managing Priorities
- From Conversion to Proficiency: Becoming a Priority Manager
- The Link between Priority Management and Thinking
- Chapter 4. Creating New Products and Services
- The Benefits of Expanding Your Perspective
- Improving Your New Product Development Process
- The ET Development Funnel
- Pre-Work to the Process
- The Benefits of Building the Infrastructure First
- Chapter 5. Establishing Alliances
- False Partners
- Name Your Allies
- Expanding Opportunities with a Variety of Alliances
- Why Build Alliances?
- Six Forms of Alliances
- Two Tools for Building Alliances
- The Pre-Development Funnel 1
- Alliance Killers
- Chapter 6. Leveraging Technology
- What Technology Means to Your Organization
- Advancing Your Organization by Leveraging Technology
- The Leverager's Dilemma: Addressing the Downside of Technological Change
- Leveraging Technology Levels the Playing Field
- An ET Tool for Selecting and Implementing Technology
- Implementing Technology Successfully
- Leveraging Technology in Different Ways to Advance Your Organization
- Category 2. Learning
- Chapter 7. Acquiring New Knowledge
- Different Levels of Learning
- The Five Enterprise Thinking Learning Triangles
- ET's 5 Learning Triangles
- Gaining a 360° Awareness of Your Organization
- What You Can Do Starting Now
- Looking Within: How Do You Prefer to Learn?
- Ways to Become More Aware and More Knowledgeable
- Chapter 8. Enhancing Global Awareness
- What Does It Mean to Be "Globally Aware"?
- The Connection between Global Awareness and Career Growth
- Global Awareness Improves Decision Making
- How Global Awareness Turbocharges the Enterprise Thinker
- The Approach to Becoming Globally Aware
- Sources of Global Information
- Putting Global Awareness to Practical Use
- Chapter 9. Watching Competition
- The Typical Approach to Competitive Intelligence
- How Well Do You Really Know Your Competition?
- Where to Look: Your Competition Is Not Always Your Competition
- The ET Competitive Intelligence Process
- How Well Does Your Competition Know You?
- Category 3. Performing
- Chapter 10. Leading the Charge
- The Building Blocks of Leadership: Activities versus Attributes
- An Improved Perspective about Leadership: The White Horse Leader
- The ET Leading Process-Leading the Charge
- Five Ways to Boost Your Effectiveness as a Leader
- The Unspoken Realities of Leading
- Chapter 11. Empowering Others
- Empowering Others at 50,000 Feet
- The Enterprise Thinking (ET) Empowering Process
- The Misnomers of Motivation and Morale
- The Transparent Career Ladder
- Techniques and Concepts for Empowering Others
- Chapter 12. Innovating Everywhere
- Encouraging Creativity
- What Does "Innovating" Mean to You?
- Concepts and Rationale Behind Innovation
- Decision-Making Factors
- Developing the Mindset of an Innovator
- Creating a Culture of Innovation
- Chapter 13. Selling Continuously
- The Role That Selling Plays in Great Leadership
- The ET Leadership Sales Approach
- Pathways for Selling Continuously to Other People
- Building the Type of Organization that Sells Itself
- Overcoming the Challenges of Leadership Sales
- Knowing Your Role in Regard to Traditional Sales
- Cornerstones for Engaging Others
- Category 4. Forecasting
- Chapter 14. Forecasting the Future
- The Art and Science of Forecasting
- Living Mentally in the Future
- Forecasting Tools
- The Pentality of Forecasting
- Ways to Improve Your Forecasting
- Avoiding the Eleven Mistakes of F-O-R-E-C-A-S-T-I-N-G
- Forecasting and the Other Categories of ET
- Next Steps
- Chapter 15. Conclusion
- What You Can Expect Moving Forward
- Five Stages of Becoming an Enterprise Thinker
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
- About The Authors
- More Resources
- Acknowledgments