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Elevate Your Strategy: Rich Horwath, CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, guides organizations to master strategic thinking for impactful success.
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I highly recommend Rich if you or your organization want to increase your strategic capability. Rich takes the complex topic of strategy and provides a straightforward framework and practical resources to advance strategic thinking. Rich presented at the Intel Global Leadership Conference and the participants were able to take his framework and immediately apply to real business challenges. And to boot, Rich is a great storyteller – he was clearly the favorite at our conference.
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Rich Horwath is a distinguished figure in the world of strategic thinking, celebrated for his transformative insights that transcend the complexities of modern business. With a background as the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Rich Horwath has devoted his career to guiding organizations towards strategic excellence.
His impact is vividly evident in everyday situations. Just as a reliable GPS navigates through unfamiliar routes, Rich Horwath serves as the navigational compass for companies navigating through intricate decision-making and rapidly evolving markets. His strategic acumen has played a pivotal role in shaping the success of global giants like ESPN, Google, and FedEx.
As a keynote speaker, Rich Horwath’s influence extends far beyond the stage. His motivational speeches have equipped countless leaders with actionable tools to navigate uncertainty and drive growth. Through his engaging workshops, he has empowered over 100,000 managers to sharpen their strategic thinking skills, unleashing their full potential.
Rich Horwath’s accolades are a testament to his expertise. His groundbreaking strategy graphic novel, “StrategyMan vs. The Anti-Strategy Squad,” was not only a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller but was also honored with the prestigious “Best Strategy Book of 2018” award.
His reach has extended to major media outlets, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV, where he has shared his strategic insights with a wider audience.
In a world where strategic agility is paramount, Rich Horwath emerges as the guiding force. His profound understanding of strategy transforms businesses, fostering innovation, and empowering leadership to embrace change. Organizations that choose to engage with Rich Horwath for their events are making a resolute investment in strategic growth, as his wisdom lights the path to sustained success.
See keynotes with Rich HorwathA study of more than 10,000 senior executives showed that the #1 most important leadership behavior critical to company success is strategic thinking. But, only three out of every 10 managers are strategic. And since bad strategy is the main cause of business failure 80% of the time, having managers that are effective strategists can be the difference between continued success and failure.
New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath provides managers with a framework to master the most important business skill of our time: strategic thinking. Rich designed the 3A Strategic Thinking Framework to help managers think and act strategically on a daily basis, not just once a year during the strategic planning process. By developing this strategic mindset, managers will be able to continually discover new insights that enable them to create and deliver new value to their customers.
Key Learnings:
Ask 10 people for their definition of strategy and you’re likely to get 10 different answers. This inconsistent understanding of strategy leads to bad strategy. In fact, 67% of managers surveyed said their organizations were bad at developing strategy. Result: the #1 cause of business failure is bad strategy. If you and your team don’t understand strategy today, you may not have a business tomorrow.
New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath provides managers with everything they need to know to understand strategy in 60 minutes. Introduced by Chief Executive Magazine as “The world’s foremost expert on strategic thinking,” Rich provides clear and concise definitions for the key business planning terms and helps managers apply them to their business. The result is a common knowledge and understanding of strategy along with the most important tools to develop, communicate, and execute strategy effectively.
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Are you where you want to be in your career? Are you where you want to be in your life? You and you alone can set your strategic direction. You and you alone will decide if you’ve reached your full potential. You and you alone will look back on your life with great joy or great regret. The choice is yours. Strategy is the power to get from where you are today, to where you want to go — the power to live
strategically.
New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath provides audiences with tips and tools on the most important thing in the world: the direction of their lives. Based on the #1 selling book on Amazon.com, Rich has designed a set of principles to help people think, act, and live strategically each day, in order to reach their full potential at work and at home.
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We were fortunate to have Rich speak to the top 70 leaders at Moen to develop their strategic thinking skills and he did a masterful job. Rich designed and delivered a presentation that offered the right balance between theory and practice which facilitated audience participation and focus. The reviews of the session were outstanding and I would highly recommend Rich to communicate the art and science of strategy.
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your invaluable contribution to the first ever L’Oréal Commercial Conference. Your presentation on Strategic Thinking was both insightful and inspiring and you were the perfect keynote speaker to start the conference. The reaction from the attendees and out leadership could not have been more positive.
Being a senior executive requires you to lead, manage, and monitor many different elements of the business at the same time on a continual basis. Sometimes it can feel like an intellectual version of the arcade game Whac-A-Mole, where issues keep popping up and you’re required to see and handle them instantaneously. Where you spend […]
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