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YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO STRATEGY. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. “The Financial Times Guide to Strategy” is your unbeatable reference on strategy. It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic thinkers and introduces the key strategic tools and techniques you need to develop your own strategy. Based on long experience and on conversations with leading strategists around the world, Richard Koch helps you discover each critical step in creating, delivering, and understanding successful strategy. The fifth edition of this bestselling book is your jargon-free guide to the strategic models and thinkers you really need to know about. Updated with new tools and examples, “The Financial Times Guide to Strategy” shows you which questions to ask, how to go about answering them, and then what action to take. This is the smartest and most accessible strategy guide available anywhere.

In the ten years since the much-praised first edition, coaching has become a core requirement for leadership. It's a core part of business school programs, it's the norm on all leadership development programs, and all leaders and managers now have to be able to coach. The FT Guide to Business Coaching is the book on which many leaders rely, and this updated edition will give listeners a comprehensive introduction to coaching. Being a successful business coach means having exceptional listening skills, asking great questions and applying the best techniques at just the right time. But how do you learn to do that? The Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching shows you the way. It provides you with a step-by-step overview of all the tools and techniques you need to build your own unique and well-grounded approach as a coach. Ultimately it enables you to take your coaching from good to great. This indispensable guide covers: the business of coaching; the coaches; develop your coaching: first steps; building your basic coaching skills: the "Big Five"; building coaching skills: the different approaches; deepening your coaching skills: working with individual difference; advanced coaching: from individuals to groups; advanced coaching: coaching for career transitions; advanced coaching: motivation and change; building a freelance coaching business; and more.