Strategic Thinking in 3D A Guide for National Security, Foreign Policy, and Business Professionals

Name: Strategic Thinking in 3D A Guide for National Security, Foreign Policy, and Business Professionals
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ISBN: 9781597977067

ISBN-10: 1597977063

ISBN-13: 9781597977067

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ross Harrison

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Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one’s external environment. Each organization has a unique environment, but as Ross Harrison explains in Strategic Thinking in 3D, any environment—whether in the fields of national security, foreign policy, or business—has three dimensions: systems, opponents, and groups.Systems strategy involves the challenge of creating leverage against opponents by shaping the external environment they rely on for sustaining their power. Opponents-based strategy requires analyzing a competitor’s capability, motivation, and strategy, assessing one’s own competitive challenges, and then developing approaches for directly confronting the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.32" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Demystifying Strategy



The Inward Face of Strategy



Setting Strategic Goals



The Primacy of Capability



The Outward Face of Strategy



Strategy in the Dimension of Systems



Strategy in the Dimension of Opponents



Strategy in the Dimension of Groups



The Power of Integration



Al-Qaeda's Strategy in 3D


Conclusion: Strategic Thinking in 3D


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author