The Cross Sector Strategist: What 30 Years in Energy, Telecoms and Public Service Taught Me

Most strategy books are written from one seat. The author spent a career in a single industry, or a single company, and generalized outward from there. The Cross-Sector Strategist is different - because real strategic careers rarely stay in one lane.Drawing on decades of hands-on experience across government regulatory agencies, a state-owned energy enterprise, executive leadership, telecoms, and high-stakes consulting, Dr. Legohu Mogodi, DBA, shows what happens when the rules of one sector simply don't apply to the next - and exactly what to do about it.This is not another abstract strategy framework borrowed from Silicon Valley or the battlefield. It is a field guide built from real institutional cases: vague five-year strategies that no one could translate into action, annual budgets that quietly starve the plans they were meant to fund, procurement bottlenecks fed by corruption and supplier monopolies, and government institutions that lean on consultants without ever building the internal competence to sustain the gains after they leave.Each chapter pairs a clear, usable framework - the Four Questions Before Any Strategy Question, the Stakeholder-Power Map, the Constraint-to-Choice Ladder, the Budget-Cycle Strategy Canvas, and more - with a real field note from the front lines of public entities, energy, telecoms, and consulting, plus a hands-on exercise you can run with your own team this week.Whether you lead a government department, a state-owned enterprise, a regulated industry, or a consulting practice trying to make sense of all three, The Cross-Sector Strategist gives you the diagnostic tools to know exactly what kind of problem you're facing - before you spend a single strategy session solving the wrong one.