The Strategist
Ricardo Diaz
Professor Sean Jasso
BUS 109
Book Review: The Strategist
The Strategist:
Be the Leader Your Business Needs
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
In the book The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs by Cynthia A. Montgomery discusses the topic of being an elusive and a rigorously effective strategist. The purpose of the author is to give us a new understanding of what a strategy really is and the components needed to be a strategist. The author through all her pages help us to understand some of the most fundamental questions that the manager must ask themselves when it comes to strategy such as what is strategy, why it is important, and what you have to do in order to effectively execute them. The final and most fundamental goal of the author, however, is to make managers transcend into strategists equipped with the right and vigorous strategic thinking depth. In a general context, then, this is a book tailored towards the leader not necessarily towards the strategy per se. Montgomery tries, in her poignant work, to persuade her readers to bring out one of the most essential elements the strategy need, the leadership posture.
THESIS
Montgomery discusses the idea that a good strategist must not forget about their most important role which is to be a leader. According to her poignant arguments about the inherent elements of a strategy, Montgomery establishes that “what’s being forgotten is that strategy is not a decision or a solution. It is not a problem to be solved and settled. It is a journey. It needs continuous, not intermittent, leadership. It needs a strategist.” (P.13). This argument is resembled throughout the chapters in which she tries to develop or prove her argument about the implicit and essential position of a leader as the pillar of every single strategy. The author develops different approaches to rescue the leader behind every strategy; however, I conceptualized her work into five elements that must be considered to achieve such
Professor Sean Jasso
BUS 109
Book Review: The Strategist
The Strategist:
Be the Leader Your Business Needs
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
In the book The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs by Cynthia A. Montgomery discusses the topic of being an elusive and a rigorously effective strategist. The purpose of the author is to give us a new understanding of what a strategy really is and the components needed to be a strategist. The author through all her pages help us to understand some of the most fundamental questions that the manager must ask themselves when it comes to strategy such as what is strategy, why it is important, and what you have to do in order to effectively execute them. The final and most fundamental goal of the author, however, is to make managers transcend into strategists equipped with the right and vigorous strategic thinking depth. In a general context, then, this is a book tailored towards the leader not necessarily towards the strategy per se. Montgomery tries, in her poignant work, to persuade her readers to bring out one of the most essential elements the strategy need, the leadership posture.
THESIS
Montgomery discusses the idea that a good strategist must not forget about their most important role which is to be a leader. According to her poignant arguments about the inherent elements of a strategy, Montgomery establishes that “what’s being forgotten is that strategy is not a decision or a solution. It is not a problem to be solved and settled. It is a journey. It needs continuous, not intermittent, leadership. It needs a strategist.” (P.13). This argument is resembled throughout the chapters in which she tries to develop or prove her argument about the implicit and essential position of a leader as the pillar of every single strategy. The author develops different approaches to rescue the leader behind every strategy; however, I conceptualized her work into five elements that must be considered to achieve such