Your next five steps

Mastering strategic planning skills in your business

Author Name: Patrick Butt-David, Greg Dinkin

This book is an effective practical guide, combining principles and discoveries derived from the author's experience. Its methodology represents a comprehensive strategy suitable for entrepreneurs in startups, as well as for executives in established organizations. This methodology consists of five steps:

Step 1: Master the art of knowing yourself

Step 2: Master the ability to think

Step 3: Master building the right team

Step 4: Master the art of making plans to help you expand.

Step 5: Master Power Games

In this book, the author draws on a methodology inspired by chess grandmasters, who are known to anticipate at least five moves ahead while playing, and he believes that successful entrepreneurs should operate according to this approach.

Entrepreneurs sometimes feel frustrated and discouraged, and they are faced with the urgent need to find innovative strategies to advance their business to the next level. To arrive at an effective strategy, they must define their five next steps. The book suggests several methods that give entrepreneurs a competitive advantage, including:

Clarity: Especially about what they want and who they want to be.

Strategy: It helps them think steadily and confidently when in complex decision-making positions, especially in senior management, or even within departmental departments within the organization.

Growth: Developing tactics to deal with both the good and the bad times.

Skill: Specifically, the skill of building a team that aligns with the established values ​​of the business in order to expand and achieve bold, long-term goals.

Innovative solutions: when dealing with the challenges of manipulation imposed by others.