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Hugh Courtney, Ph.D. McKinsey consultant and author of 20/20 Foresight Paul Schoemaker belongs to an extremely exclusive club -- the one for business authors who are both leading-edge practitioners and academic researchers. This extraordinary book offers eminently practical, yet theoretically pure, advice for managers in these uncertain times. Professor Marvin Zonis Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago The title says it all...Schoemaker guides us through the uncertainties and anxieties that confound business post-dotcom/post-September 11/post-Enron/post-economic downturn. He shows how businesspeople can create scenarios that will make them prepared and how the prepared can exploit the opportunities inherent in an uncertain world. Henry Hatch 47th Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Commanding General Paul Schoemaker describes a strategic process that will better prepare organizations for the future. This book is an invaluable guide for managers in both the public and private sectors. Alberto Ibarguen Publisher, The Miami Herald This is the strategic equivalent of a good liberal arts education. It teaches you a broad-based approach that will keep you from being surprised by change. Paul Schoemaker belongs to an extremely exclusive club -- the one for business authors who are both leading-edge practitioners and academic researchers. This extraordinary book offers eminently practical, yet theoretically pure, advice for managers in these uncertain times. --Hugh Courtney, Ph.D. McKinsey consultant and author of 20/20 Foresight The title says it all...Schoemaker guides us through the uncertainties and anxieties that confound business post-dotcom/post-September 11/post-Enron/post-economic downturn. He shows how businesspeople can create scenarios that will make them prepared and how the prepared can exploit the opportunities inherent in an uncertain world. --Professor Marvin Zonis, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Paul Schoemaker describes a strategic process that will better prepare organizations for the future. This book is an invaluable guide for managers in both the public and private sectors. --Henry Hatch, 47th Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Commanding General This is the strategic equivalent of a good liberal arts education. It teaches you a broad-based approach that will keep you from being surprised by change. --Alberto Ibarguen Publisher, The Miami Herald Alberto IbarguenPublisher, The Miami Herald This is the strategic equivalent of a good liberal arts education. It teaches you a broad-based approach that will keep you from being surprised by change. Hugh Courtney, Ph.D.McKinsey consultant and author of 20/20 Foresight Paul Schoemaker belongs to an extremely exclusive club -- the one for business authors who are both leading-edge practitioners and academic researchers. This extraordinary book offers eminently practical, yet theoretically pure, advice for managers in these uncertain times. Henry Hatch47th Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Commanding GeneralPaul Schoemaker describes a strategic process that will better prepare organizations for the future. This book is an invaluable guide for managers in both the public and private sectors. Alberto Ibargu enPublisher, The Miami Herald This is the strategic equivalent of a good liberal arts education. It teaches you a broad-based approach that will keep you from being surprised by change. Professor Marvin ZonisGraduate School of Business, University of ChicagoThe title says it all...Schoemaker guides us through the uncertainties and anxieties that confound business post-dotcom/post-September 11/post-Enron/post-economic downturn. He shows how businesspeople can create scenarios that will make them prepared and how the prepared can exploit the opportunities inherent in an uncertain world.

This is the strategic equivalent of a good liberal arts education. It teaches you a broad-based approach that will keep you from being surprised by change. --Alberto Ibarguen Publisher, The Miami Herald

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Paul J. H. Schoemaker, PhD, a world-renowned authority on decision making and scenario-based strategic management, is chairman and CEO of Decision Strategies International, Inc. Formerly a strategic planner with Royal Dutch/Shell's scenario-planning group in London, Dr. Schoemaker has coauthored several books, including Decision Traps and Winning Decisions. In 2000, he co-edited Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies and coauthored Peripheral Vision (both with George Day). His latest books are Chips, Clones and Living Beyond 100 and Brilliant Mistakes. Schoemaker is the author of a landmark 1995 article, ""Scenario Planning,"" the second most requested reprint in the forty-one-year history of Sloan Management Review. In 2000, he was awarded the Best Paper prize by the Strategic Management Society, which publishes the leading academic journals in the field. Schoemaker also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, where he teaches decision making and strategy. For more than ten years he taught at the University of Chicago, and he has been a visiting professor with Cedep at Insead in France. Schoemaker is the founder and Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International (DecisionStrat.com), which specializes in strategic decision making and leadership development, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.

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