Strategy Quest by Paul A. Sacco [Excerpt Tour]

Are you a business executive in need of strategic opportunities? Using an entirely new method, Strategy Quest will guide you every step of the way.

Welcome to one of the September 3rd stops on the blog tour for Strategy Quest by Paul A. Sacco on Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.

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About the Book

Strategy Quest
The Executive Guide to Finding Business Opportunities
by Paul A. Sacco

Published 15 June 2021
Tellwell Talent

Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help (Business)
Page Count: 139
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In Strategy Quest: The Executive Guide for Finding Business Opportunities, you will learn how to achieve the strategic mindset necessary to create and decide on the business opportunities that will put you ahead of your competition.

Using the psychology of personality type, you will understand how to make the shift to this growth mindset. In Strategy Quest, you will learn that the strategic mindset is composed of Strategic Intuition and Strategic Thinking. Strategic Intuition creates strategic visions and concepts, while strategic thinking decides if these are genuinely strategic and the right choice for your business.

Strategy Quest uses business examples to show what the strategic mindset is and isn’t. The book also equips you with the tools that you will need for your Strategy Quest and shows you how to overcome the obstacle that you might encounter.

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Excerpt

Exploration feeds the strategic mind with new information and experiences for use in the combinatory play of NiS.  During combinatory play, new and old memories join together. The products of the mind’s unconscious combinatory play are dreams or visions.

Exploration is an intuitive process in which you will divergently follow your hunches. One hunch might lead to information that leads to another hunch and on and on. When they lack a tangible problem,  executives might not know how to begin exploring. In this situation,  they often try to think about where it makes sense to find information.  Conducting what might seem like an arbitrary search for information and experiences might feel like a waste of time to them. Executives must trust that their intuitive mind knows where to start exploring.

Because you must thoroughly investigate a need, initial exploration might require a part-time effort taking weeks.  Once you complete one round of the Vision Quest Method, subsequent explorations will probably take a few hours.  Each pass through the Vision Quest Method will require less exploration time.

After you begin exploring, a strange phenomenon might occur in which you begin to automatically recognize the need, even when you are not exploring.  For instance, you might recognize the need fulfilled on a TV show.  In a restaurant, you might recognize that the staff is under-fulfilling the need.  Filling up your car with gasoline, you might notice something concerning the need.

Avoid thinking judgment to decide whether new pieces of information and experiences are useful. The tendency might be to dismiss any information that you can’t relate to your goal through reasoning.  Remember that you can’t think your way to a vision.  You don’t know how the combinatory play of your subconscious or unconscious mind will use what you have found through exploration.  Dismissing information or experiences is the same as suppressing it, and the mind will then avoid using it to create a vision.  Without judging the information, focus on understanding how it might relate to your goal.

When deciding on strategic opportunities, it is very important to have alternatives to compare.  For this reason, it is advisable to find lots of concepts by having as many executives as possible undertake their own Strategy Quest.

Selecting one or more strategic opportunities to become strategic initiatives will probably lead to a feeling of elation similar to that experienced during a vision. In the past, you may have had this feeling after you have struggled to make a tough decision; then, having made it, feel relieved and content. As happens after experiencing a vision, sobering second thoughts might then creep into the mind of the decision-maker; however, unless new information comes forth and alters your thinking, you must ignore these thoughts and stick to their well-considered decisions.

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About the Author

As President of Propheta Lucro Management Consultants, Paul specializes in helping leaders find strategic opportunities. One of the world’s top experts in strategic thinking, Paul has over 35 years of experience managing and leading businesses. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto holding both a B.A. Sc. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. Paul is available to speak about business strategy or to teach, coach or facilitate the Strategy Quest method. For more information visit our web-site at: www.prophetalucro.com Or contact Paul at: Email: Paul@prophetalucro.com

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