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Person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy
A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy. Strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions. A strategy describes how the ends (goals) will be achieved using the means (resources). Organizations generally task senior leaders with determining strategy. Strategy can be intended or can emerge as a pattern of activity as the organization adapts to its environment or competes. It involves activities such as strategic planning and strategic thinking. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StrategistA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The response patterns of r- and K-strategist bacteria to long-term organic and inorganic fertilization regimes within the microbial food web are closely linked to rice productionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The mind of the strategistThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata is an r strategistCited 162 times
- Go sideways: StrategyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Strategic designA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A person who devises strategies.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata is an r strategist
The Western Black-And-White Colobus as a Low-Energy Strategist: Activity Budgets, Energy Expenditure and Energy Intake
The State as Strategist in International Business Research
Corticosterone manipulation reveals differences in hierarchical organization of multidimensional reproductive trade‐offs in r‐strategist and K‐strategist females
Response to simulated climatic change in an alpine and subarctic pollen‐risk strategist, Silene acaulis
Becoming a strategist: The roles of strategy discourse and ontological security in managerial identity work
r-strategist versus K-strategist for the application in bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soils
Enrichment of a K-strategist microbial population able to biodegrade p-nitrophenol in a sequencing batch reactor
🆕 Influential since 2022
The response patterns of r- and K-strategist bacteria to long-term organic and inorganic fertilization regimes within the microbial food web are closely linked to rice production
The rise of the shareholding state in Italy: A policy-oriented strategist or simply a shareholder? Evidence from the energy and banking sectors’ privatizations
The Super Strategist in the Semiconductor Industry: A Multi-Framework CEO Analysis of Lisa Su at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
StrateGIST 1: A first-in-human (FIH), phase 1 study of IDRX-42 in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors resistant to prior treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
A game approach to multi-dimensional opinion dynamics in social networks with stubborn strategist agents
📚 Books worth reading
The mind of the strategistKenʼichi Ohmae · 1982
Worlds of Psychotic PeopleEls van Dongen · 2004
Architect of global jihadBrynjar Lia · 2007- 📕Thinking StrategistVickie Cox Edmondson · 2018
60-minute Brand StrategistIdris Mootee · 2003
Brand thinking and other noble pursuitsDebbie Millman · 2011- 📕The sector strategistTimothy J. McIntosh · 2012
Everything Trump touches diesRick Wilson · 2018
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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