audiobook South Carolina's Military Organizations During the War Between the States:: The Midlands (Civil War Series) by Robert S. Seigler in History

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Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one’s external environment. Each organization has a unique environment; but as Ross Harrison explains in Strategic Thinking in 3D; any environment—whether in the fields of national security; foreign policy; or business—has three dimensions: systems; opponents; and groups. Systems strategy involves the challenge of creating leverage against opponents by shaping the external environments they rely on for sustaining their power. Opponents-based strategy requires analyzing a competitor’s capability; motivation; and strategy; assessing one’s own competitive challenges; and then developing approaches for directly confronting the opponent. Group strategy aims to mobilize political; consumer; and market groups against the power of an opponent. Strategic Thinking in 3D makes strategy “portable” for individuals who switch careers multiple times during their professional lives; moving among public; nonprofit; and private sector jobs. Harrison uses al Qaeda’s strategy against the United States as a “capstone” case study to demonstrate how strategic success often results from the cascading effect of “wins” in all three of these dimensions. Conversely; strategic failure can come from the mutual reinforcement of “losses” across these same three dimensions. Reinforcing and integrating the concepts; Harrison shows how strategy in 3D actually works in practice.