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HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives - by Harvard Business Review (Paperback)
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- This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career.Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward.
- About the Author: Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking.
- 256 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Personal Success
- Series Name: HBR Guide
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About the Book
"This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career. Strategic initiatives are where the rubber meets the road when it comes to putting strategy into action, and leading a critical initiative may be the key to propelling your career forward. Yet managing a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle. The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch, implementation to scaling up or winding down. You'll learn how to: launch an initiative in a way that maximizes its chance of success; assemble a team that's ready to perform; gather the resources you need; stay on schedule and within budget; avoid losing momentum once the initiative is up and running; maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders; put strategy into action"--Book Synopsis
This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career.
Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward. Yet running a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle.
The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch to scaling up.
You'll learn how to:
- Win--and keep--support for your new initiative
- Move rapidly from approval to implementation
- Assemble transformative, high-performing initiative teams
- Maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders
- Stay on schedule and within budget
- Avoid initiative overload by killing projects that aren't meeting business needs
- Keep multiple initiatives in strategic alignment
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
About the Author
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Visit hbr.org. Follow @HarvardBiz on Twitter; find us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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