Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind
Looking for a new management new approach to come up with revolutionary ideas, then develop a strategy around those ideas to create ongoing change? Then check out Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind
Five Idea-Sourcing Tools
Schmitt also provides the five idea-sourcing tools:
- Combining the (seemingly) incompatible
- Using “outside-industry benchmarking
- Killing the sacred cows
- Using “outside-industry benchmarking
- Killing the sacred cow
- Strategy stripping
While his assessment tools are interesting, Schmitt’s execution strategies offer sound advice to to get results in your Big Think strategy converting that big idea into a workable strategy. He offers four general approaches:
- Opposition strategy
- Integration strategy
- Essence strategy
- Transcendence strategy
Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind is for creative thinkers who are looking for new strategy tools for their toolkit.
Recommended Reading List
- The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
by Roger L. Martin
- Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done
by Mark Morgan, Raymond E. Levitt, and William A. Malek
- Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change
by Behnam N. Tabrizi
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