Cover -- TItle Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Setting the Wheels in Motion -- Chapter 1 Strategic Shock Absorbers -- Chapter 2 Accuracy -- Decision Triggers -- Air Deccan -- Creating Decision Triggers -- The Majlis System -- The Strategic Wedge -- SuperMax -- Wedge Opportunities -- The Art of Management: Accuracy -- Chapter 3 Agility -- Constant Adaptation -- Frequent Planning Cycles -- The Corporate Concierge -- Creating a Corporate Concierge -- Making Strategy a Bottom-Up Process -- Making Bottom-Up Strategy Stick -- The Art of Management: Agility -- Chapter 4 Momentum -- Mastering the End Versus Means -- Formal Planning -- Informal Practices -- Using Memes as a Means to an End -- The Upside of Ends Versus Means -- Intellectual Buffers, Not Physical Buffers -- The Art of Management: Momentum -- Chapter 5 Foresight -- Strategic Assumptions -- Changing the System -- Alternate Strategies: Scanning the Periphery -- Have an Exit Strategy -- How to Proceed Toward the Exit -- The Art of Management: Foresight -- Chapter 6 Execution -- Compression and Expansion -- DLF's Strategic Shock Absorbers -- Expansion Mode -- Compression Mode -- Balancing Compression and Expansion -- The Upside of Oscillation -- Chapter 7 Driven by Values -- How Values Steer Strategy -- The Value of Values -- Values Dovetail with Competitive Advantage -- Values Can Be Embedded across Activities and Processes -- Values Create Consistency during Turbulence -- Values Are a Platform for Change and Transformation -- Values Connect Companies and Customers -- Creating a Culture Where Values Matter -- Chapter 8 Management Innovation from Fast-Moving Markets -- Values Enable Coordination -- Absorbing Change without Losing Momentum -- Developing Foresight and Anticipating the Future -- Executing with Accuracy -- Reacting with Agility.

Formalizing the Informal -- Notes -- The Author -- Index -- More from Wiley -- EULA.