MBA ASAP Business Strategy

The Importance of Strategy

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The importance of strategy is to provide a framework so we can act in accordance with our thinking. It provides a set of tools and techniques to help us achieve those hard things.

Strategy in business is the big picture.

Great strategy navigates between market conditions and a firm’s assets.

Competitive Strategy is a firm’s answer to the following question:

What can we do that is really hard?

It is about picking goals for the enterprise and then figuring out what resources are going to be assembled to achieve those goals. Learn strategic thinking, planning, implementation, management and leadership ASAP with this comprehensive course.

This course comes with my two Business Strategy books, lots of slidedecks, tons of articles from my award winning blog, and over two hours of lectures broken down into segments that address all aspects of Strategy. 

Strategy in business is the big picture. Implementing a strategic vision is how a business succeeds and is profitable.

Strategy is about figuring out how to create a sustainable competitive advantage and barriers to entering your markets. Strategy is a firm’s answer to the following question: What can we do that is really hard?

• Great strategy locates and exploits the fit between market conditions and a firm’s assets.

• Leadership and Management are the key skill sets that rely on strategy. Leadership is doing the right things. Management is doing things right.

• Strategic Thinking and vision is the realm of leadership.

• Strategic Implementation and executing the strategy is the realm of management.

• Strategic Planning brings the skills of leadership and management together.

• Business Strategy is about picking goals for the enterprise and then figuring out what resources are going to be assembled to achieve those goals.

Learn strategic thinking, planning, implementation, management and leadership ASAP with this comprehensive course.Achieve more, faster, and reach your full potential.

Are you planning on getting a business degree? An MBA? Want a leg up in your classes and coursework?

Looking for a way to turbocharge your career and level up? Thinking of changing careers or starting a business? Do you aspire to be a manager?

Be an infinite learner. Leaders never stop developing their skills by refining old ones and learning new ones. Are you a new manager or interested in increasing your managerial influence? In any case, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes with little regard for your schedule. You need to be prepared.

To reach your full potential you need to master new business and personal skills.

Packed with practical advice the MBA ASAP Series are the primers you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills.

We’re MBA ASAP, our mission is to make advanced, quality business education accessible to capable students everywhere by leveraging technology at scale to deliver inexpensive online programs, courses, and books.

We know that talent is distributed globally, but opportunity is not. We believe all capable and committed students deserve the opportunity to change their lives and to impact their communities.

Education is most effective when educators, and students work together to create pathways for mutual success. Technology makes advanced learning locally available across geographies and enhances outcomes.