Ntsikie is a management consultant whose area of focus is strategy development, facilitation and implementation using various management practices, techniques and tools. She has experience working with public, private and NGO sectors, including facilitation with Boards of Directors. She is an avid practitioner of business excellence models and has proven track record applying her skills.

The first book in Bob Gorzynski's acclaimed strategic thinking trilogy. The Strategic Mind provides a framework for developing a deeper, more holistic form of thinking using seven core disciplines. Packed with examples and case studies, the book provides both theoretical insight and practical guidance for the 21st-century manager. "The Strategic Mind is unique in its class and should be on the list of essential reading for strategy courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level." Sue Davis, Deputy Dean, University of Gloucestershire Business School "A refreshing, often moving, and much needed new look at strategy in practice." Jeff Watkins, formerly Director of Postgraduate Management Programmes, University of Bristol "Distils the strategic essence from an astonishingly wide range of business and other stories." Simon Burke, Chairman, Superquinn supermarkets and Majestic Wine plc "Excellent - very readable and offers many insightful perspectives on people and situations directly relevant to the world today." Simon Wright, CEO, Virgin Entertainment Group International "This book is an inspiration to all of us wanting to explore our own strategy for a more meaningful life." John Tucker, Founder and Director, The International Centre for Families in Business "An essential book for the 21st-century strategic leader. If you are looking for a new framework to help you make difficult choices in your organisation with clarity and reality, then this book is the one for you!" June Burrough, Founder and Centre Director, Pierian Centre, Bristol. Bob Gorzynski is a writer, teacher and mentor, specialising in strategic thinking: seeing the 'big picture' and learning how to tap into our full creative potential. He is passionate about the natural world and protecting it for future generations, focusing on how to develop holistic strategies for the future (including working with environmental organisations as part of his PhD at Bangor University). He has written four published books on strategy and numerous other articles and is the Founder of the Centre for Strategic Thinking (www.spiritofstrategy.org).

The world as we know it is changing rapidly and beyond recognition. To move towards a 'world that works for all' will require a profound shift in the way that we think - and the capacity for each one of us to become a leader in initiating change in our own lives, businesses and communities to begin to live in long-term sustainable harmony with the world around us. "The Strategic Mind" provides a framework for developing a deeper, more holistic form of thinking using seven core disciplines: know your own story; think small; go slowly; serve others; reflect; be simple; and, dream. Packed with examples and case studies from the very large (BP, Amazon, Apple) to the very small, the book provides both theoretical insight and practical guidance for the 21st-century manager wanting to develop a sustainable business strategy, responsive to the needs of the wider community as well as to the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners.

For such a common word, strategy is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misapplied. Given the complex challenges facing organizations ? and entire societies ? we must grow more and better strategists. Tackling three simple yet sweeping questions, Cultivating the Strategic Mind delivers the goods: 1. What is strategy, and why aren?t more leaders better strategists? 2. While strategy is as foundational as DNA within the most exemplary companies, why are so many organizations missing it altogether? 3. How can I apply strategy in palpable, pragmatic ways to the benefit of those around me? As a result of demonstrating a more Strategic Mind, leaders will employ a robust language and methodology for crafting, communicating, and implementing strategic aspirations and commitments. Contemporary business is screaming for equally creative and critical thinkers capable of leading teams and entire organizations. Blake Leath?s breezy writing style, intuitive models, research-based solutions, and sticky storytelling make Cultivating the Strategic Mind a stimulating, fun, and immensely credible approach toward developing strategists for our evolving world of work. If you believe in the fundamental importance of thinking as a differentiating competency for exemplary leaders, it?s time you treat yourself to the book you?ll want to share with your colleagues ? the one written with you in mind and designed to guide leaders on the journey to visionary, creator, and architect of strategy.

Since its original publication by McGraw-hill almost 10 years ago, this best-selling guide to the inner workings of Japanese strategic thinking has become an acknowledged classic. Kenichi Ohmae a business strategist of international renown provides a Compelling account of the reasons why companies dominate the global processes and planning techniques, why they work, and how companies can benefit from focusing on the three essential elements of any strategic plan: company customer and competition. Replete with numerous illustrative case histories of strategic thinking in action, Ohmae s classic work continues to inspire managers at all levels to new heights of bold, imaginative strategic thinking.

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

A life story by a high school and college graduate at 16 years old."We are living a future we have always dreamed of. When you leverage the resources that already exist in your environment, you have access to success." Amara Leggett is an entrepreneur, blogger, and motivational speaker. This is her journey from starting her business at 16 years old. As a TEDx Speaker, she shares steps that anyone can take to make the impossible possible. A story of trials and tribulations that led to success all before she turned 18 years old. Amara is a role model defying the stereotypes set before she was born, that only propelled her motivation to succeed in higher education as well as business. She is the perfect example of someone who started from nothing but with a great mentor that happened to also be her mother and the appropriate resources to ignite her passion for advocacy. She travels the country speaking to corporations, organizations, schools, and universities about how to achieve what may seem beyond the bounds of possibility. Everyone has the potential for greatness whether you change the world or mentor someone who does. The Strategic Mind of A Young Legend can guide you through how to build a successful brand by starting from nothing.