Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Rosie Yeo, Major Street Publishing, $29.99.
Creating groundbreaking strategy is not easy. We must challenge our ideas of what’s possible, what’s likely and what’s important. We need to choose to do new things, and sometimes to choose to stop doing things we’ve always done. Occasionally, we need to go out on a limb.
When we create big plans together, we understand and feel ownership of the story and responsibility for achieving the outcome. We can make braver decisions because we see the risks within the context of our full story.
As team leaders, the primary objective is to set the right path forward. The strategies most likely to succeed are the plans designed together with those who know your organisation best – your people – and this doesn’t happen by itself.
That’s where the purpose of this book comes in: it will show you how to harness your potential and your team’s potential to create more powerful strategy: how to bring to life bold plans that create positive impact.
Go for Bold offers you a new approach to designing your future, focused on how you can inspire others to think differently, work through challenging issues constructively and ultimately become committed to a shared future for your organisation.
You learn three steps to create bolder strategy because the tools and ideas in this book are as relevant for a small business as they for larger organisations; they will help you surface smarter, more ambitious ideas together and be bold enough to bring them to life.
Rosie Yeo, known as a strategy alchemist because of her skill in helping leaders and teams collectively imagine and achieve a better future, offers a refreshing approach to designing powerful strategy in uncertain times.
