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Jul 2024
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Episode 152: Strategic Thinking with Ric...

Darrin Peppard
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And now...about our guest this week on the show:

Rich Horwath is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he is a strategy facilitator and coach to executive leadership teams. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books on strategic thinking, including his most recent work, STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence which was selected by Inc. Magazine as a top 4 “must-read book for 2024.” Rich has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX TV to provide expert commentary on business strategy and his work has been published in Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and professor of strategy at the graduate level. Rich has helped more than a quarter million leaders develop their strategic thinking and planning capabilities over the past two decades in pursuit of his vision to teach the world to be strategic. 

Business name: Strategic Thinking Institute

Website: http://www.strategyskills.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhorwath/

E-Book for STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellencehttp://www.strategic-book.com/

Book on Amazon, STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence

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