A commonsense approach to creating effective new strategies from ones that are proven to work From Napoleon through Jack Welch, great leaders have always "borrowed" great ideas from others. The Art of What Works cuts against the grain of today's one-size-fits-all strategic gurus to argue that there are no intrinsically good or bad strategies--just flexible strategies that work best in given situations. Welch's appropriation of Six Sigma from Motorola, and use of its best features to revitalize GE, is a recent example of this approach. In this insightful and practical guide, leading strategist William Duggan lays the groundwork for building new strategic frameworks by observing what works--and what doesn't--in the real world. The Art of What Works shows business professionals how to: <ul>
<li>Recognize and adopt great ideas and strategies </li>
<li>Modify strategically sound ideas to their own benefit </li>
<li>Decide on a course of action--then modify it when necessary </li>
</ul>

The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens

Business & Money

Duggan,William

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The Great Thirst

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Delacorte

An Economic Analysis of Southern African Agriculture.

Economics

Praeger

Based on old African legends, this novel traces the life and loves of Mojamaje, Eater of Rocks, who leads the BaNare people against their combined enemies of nature and the Boers

United States

DELACORTE PRESS

Ata Four, the fourth female descendant of the original Ata and the BaNare's new leader, ventures from the edge of the Kalahari into South Africa looking for the father of her child

Lovers of the African Night

Laurel

iUniverse

In our military professions, formal analytical methods co-exist with intuitive decisionmaking by leaders in action. For the most part, there is no harm done. But many officers can recount times when they knew they should have "gone with their gut," but followed instead the results of their analytical methods. The gap between these two forms of decisionmaking perhaps has grown wider in recent times, especially in Iraq, where adaptive leadership seems to have overshadowed formal methods of planning. Departing from formal methods increasingly seems to be the mark of an effective commander, as we learn from Dr. Leonard Wong's recent Strategic Studies Institute (Ssi) report, Developing Adaptive Leaders: The Crucible Experience of Operation Iraqi Freedom (July 2004).

Coup D’Oeil: Strategic Intuition In Army Planning

Education & Teaching

Institute, Strategic Studies

Schools & Teaching

lulu.com

In Napoleon's Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon's success—coup d'oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or "glance": a sudden insight that shows you what course of action to take. It comes from knowledge of the past: You draw on what worked in other situations, in a new combination that fits the problem at hand. Napoleon's Glance—probably the first book to link Napoleon's victories to Picasso's development as an artist!—tells how 10 great strategists owed their success to coup d'oeil. All 10 applied it with great effort and risk and no guarantee it would work. But in case after case, we find the same story: How American women won the vote. How General Patton became the most successful Allied general on the Western Front of World War II. How Joan of Arc saved France from certain conquest by England. How in one generation Japan went from a peasant backwater to an industrial giant. How Picasso became the leading artist of the twentieth century. Though there have been scores of books written about Napoleon, this is the first popular book written for the general reader about his military strategy.

Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy (Nation Books)

History

Europe

Nation Books

When Napoleon's Glance was first published last spring, former NATO secretary general and now putative presidential candidate Wesley Clark declared, "This is a very important book." In Napoleon's Glance strategist William Duggan shows how Clark, along with ten other important figures in the fields of politics, war and culture, owed their success to coup d'oeil. But what is coup d'oeil? Carl von Clausewitz spent twenty years struggling to pin down the genius of Napoleon. In chapter six of what would become "On War" he discovered the secret of Napoleon's strategy: Napoleon's glance. Clausewitz calls it "coup d'oeil" meaning a stroke of the eye, or "glance." A sudden insight that shows you what course of action to take, it comes from knowledge of the past, drawing on what worked in other situations in a new combination that fits the problem at hand. In Napoleon's Glance, Duggan expertly weaves intellectual history and biography in showing how important and decisive coup d'oeil is in determining victory in war, art, the civil rights movement, third world development, and the battle for women's suffrage in America.

Asia

Bold Type Books

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