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ABC News
This inspirational book is ideal for energetic business leaders who are both thinkers and doers, who want to make a significant difference and most importantly, make things happen.
Financial Times
Book of the week! Challenging ‘delusional’ approaches to strategy, this book races through how to create distinctive plans!
The Times
The recommendations of Boards That Dare are undoubtedly sound!
The Australian
Boards That Dare is a practical and accessible book that delivers the necessary answers!
Association of MBAs
A thoughtful book...written concisely and in an engaging style, Stigter and Cooper have produced a very worthwhile book here on the challenges of modern leadership.
The Irish Times
Engaging and entertainingly written Boards That Dare offers up serious food for thought for directors and chief executives!
City A.M.
Breaking the shackles of out-dated thinking. A useful and well-written book!
Cambridge Business
Don't be deluded that the strategic planning leads to strategic thinking. If strategic changes are to be realised, then this book is a must for those who want to make that happen!
Birkbeck University of London
This book should be nominated for ‘Business Book of the Year’. Please buy, read, reflect on, and apply the learnings from this book. It is that good!
The HR Director
Boards That Dare provides great insights, challenging boards and executive management to drive for more sustainable and responsible business. This book helps to lead the way!
Charted Institute of Personnel and Development
There is no shortage of works on strategy but few are potentially as valuable as this one! 5 out of 5 stars!
Charted Management Institute
Should be nominated for Business book of the year! Please buy, read, reflect on, and apply the learning from this book. It is that good!
Dialogue Review
Boards That Dare provides us with an in-depth analysis of why boards need to change and how they can best achieve that.
University of Cambridge
Our didactic playbook offers step-by-step and interactive guidelines as HOW to lift the impact of your Strategy building on our practice tested methodologies and globally recognised research.
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Lift the impact of your strategy through Solving The Strategy Delusion by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper. This award winning book challenges conventional and 'delusional' approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, and planning when it comes to making strategy happen.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
