Strategy: Essentials for Management, Consulting and Startup Success

Strategy: Essential Foundations for Management, Consulting and Startup Success is a complete, comprehensive introduction and overview of strategy, taught by Chris Bolman, an entrepreneur, startup advisor and former VP of Marketing at Percolate. 

In this class, I do my best to explain and help you understand: 

1. The history and origins of strategy
2. The most influential strategy frameworks and mental models
3. How great strategists think
   
4. An actionable framework to help you quickly develop, design and execute your own strategies
5. My personal lessons learned as a strategist, management consultant and technology leader

Through the lessons in this course, I'll distill the last 10 years of my career into helpful, actionable insights to make you a better strategist. Whether you're a leader, executive, manager, consultant, advertising agency planner, small business owner or anyone else looking to improve their strategic decision-making, this course is for you.

Hope you'll join me.

• Introduction
• I. The Definition of Strategy
• I. The First Strategists
• I. The Origin of "Strategy"
• I. The Modern Military Strategy
• I. Strategy is a Narrative
• I. Strategy as an Algorithm
• I. Strategy is Hierarchical
• I. The Essential Levels of Strategy
• II. Scientific Management
• II. HBS and Strategy
• II. BCG and Strategic Consulting
• II. McKinsey's Strategy Frameworks
• II. Advertising Strategic Planning
• II. Game Theory and Strategy
• II. Scenario and Strategic Planning
• II. Porter's Five Forces
• III. The Building Blocks of Strategy
• III. Block #1: Problem
• III. Block #2: Insight
• III. Block #3: Structure
• III. Block #4 Plan
• III. Block #5: Action
• III. Block #6: Results & Learnings
• III. Where to Go Next
• IV. Why Strategies Win
• IV. Develop Your Own Strategies