Dear friends,
I am excited to share with
you that I am authoring a book on strategic leadership and it is tentatively
titled, “Strategy and Business: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the
Organizations of the Future.” Here are the details about the book with a free
chapter. I would appreciate if you could share your thoughts about this book on
social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About The Book
“All the men can see the
tactics I use to conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which
great victory is evolved.” —Sun Tzu
This
book outlines the author’s four decades of diversified experiences including
the Indian Air Force, teaching, training, research, and consultancy. It outlines the strategy, business,
decision-making, disruption, innovation, resilience, and time management. It is
a short course on strategic leadership. You can easily toss the book into a
briefcase or purse and read here and there as time allows. It is a quick
reference guide for all learners, leaders, entrepreneurs, and chief
executives.
“The chief strategist of an
organization has to be the leader - the CEO.” —Michael Porter
The strategy is the area that
fascinates me ever since I joined the Indian Air Force. I am passionate about this
area but never authored an exclusive book on it. I decided to author a book on
strategy and business to reach out to leaders at all levels especially
CEOs. Welcome to Strategy: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the Organizations of the
Future.
This book offers innovative
tools and techniques for CEOs to make smarter and wiser decisions. It
illustrates with the inspiring examples of successful entrepreneurs including
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Mark Zuckerberg. It interlinks decision-making
and risk-taking. It explains decision-making from Daniel Kahneman’s
perspective. It explains decision-making at the strategic, tactical, and
operational levels. It draws a blueprint to make better decisions. It outlines
a strategy for CEOs to make smarter and wiser decisions. It unveils the power
of intuition with striking stories of Fred Smith, Michael Eisner, George Soros,
and Robert Pittman. It advises the blending head, heart, and gut to make
smarter decisions. It implores to explore situational decision-making to ensure
organizational excellence and effectiveness.
This book prepares CEOs in
the age of disruption and offers innovative tools and techniques to ensure
organizational excellence and effectiveness. It explains industrial
revolutions. It differentiates between disruption and innovation. It outlines
factors leading to disruption. It illustrates with examples of iconic companies
including Nokia, Kodak, Blockbuster, and Xerox. It enlightens that some of the
notable industries including education, computer, banking, publishing, and
print media ended up due to disruption. It reminds that disruption has impacted
all sectors, industries, organizations, individuals and their careers.
This book offers innovative
tools and techniques to build resilient organizations globally. It explains
resilience and outlines the characteristics of resilient leaders. It draws a
blueprint to build resilience. It outlines a blueprint to embrace change
effectively. It illustrates with inspiring examples of resilient leaders
including Jack Welch, Alan Mulally, Lou Gerstner, and Carleton (Carly) S.
Fiorina. It explains overcoming volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and
ambiguity. It implores to convert threats into opportunities. It enlightens
that resilience is the key differentiator between successful people and
unsuccessful people.
This book helps CEOs
understand the capabilities and mechanisms that they need to adopt today to
build successful organizations in the future. It illustrates with examples of
global companies including Blockbuster, Nokia, Kodak, and Sears that failed to
embrace change while Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook that succeeded in
reinventing. It draws a blueprint for CEOs to build organizations in the
future. It unveils that the traditional models of development are no longer
adequate and unfolds strategies to build the organizations of the future. It
advises integrated efforts from all stakeholders including the organization,
employees, human resources, and chief executives to reinvent and build
organizations of the future.
This book offers timeless
tools for chief executives to manage their time effectively. It illustrates
with examples of Bill Gates and Richard Branson who use their time judiciously
and Jeff Immelt and Jeff Bezos who use their travel time productively. It
accounts for switching costs and implores to harness technology to manage time.
It reminds us that the richest people in the earth are the poorest in their
personal time and the poorest people on the earth are the richest in their
personal time. It cautions that if you
waste one second, you wasted one second of your life. It enlightens that the
biggest gift you can give to others is time, not money.
This book discusses leadership
branding and draws a blueprint to build your personal brand globally. It
defines personal branding and leadership branding and unveils the ten-fold
process of personal branding. It explains leadership branding with examples of
Wal-Mart, P&G, McKinsey, Apple, and PepsiCo. It suggests harnessing social
media to build your personal brand successfully. It advises breaking the
content into pieces and sharing them on different social media platforms by
contextualizing and customizing as per the expectations of your audiences
whenever you deliver keynotes and participate in podcasts and interviews. It
reminds you that build your personal brand requires passion, patience, and
persistence. It implores to adopt ABCDE of branding. It concludes to draw a
long-term strategy by researching yourself, identifying your unique aspects,
shortlisting your greatest strengths, and creating a niche area to stand out
from others.
Life is great!
Professor
M.S. Rao
Founder of MSR Leadership
Consultants, India
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