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Strategics : the Art and Science of Holistic Strategy by William J. Cook Jr. is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Strategics : the Art and Science of Holistic Strategy about?
Most of what passes for strategic planning is not strategic at all. It is long-range planning or comprehensive planning, or in some cases just program or project planning. The result is a relinquishment of control to external conditions and circumstances, the perpetuation of obsolete systems, and organizational fragmentation and internal conflict. The opportunity to create new possibilities and realities--the ultimate object of strategy--is lost. Cook maintains that even to attempt strategy there must first be a strategic system, a system that deals with strategic issues, decision-making, and strategic action, which is preceded by strategic thinking. Cook combines these three aspects of strategy into a coherent, powerful concept that reinvigorates strategy with its original forceful meaning: strategos--to lead an army. In this way strategy becomes the means by which communities continuously create artifactual systems to serve extraordinary purposes. His book contains sound, pragmatic theory, original insights into strategic issues, and detailed hands-on guidance on all phases of strategic thinking, planning, and action. Cook explains that stragetics can be expressed as thinking, pl
Who reads Strategics : the Art and Science of Holistic Strategy?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- William J. Cook Jr.
- Publisher
- Quorem; Quorum Books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781567202786
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Management, Business, Finance
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14