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Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined
by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel
"... this book has a serious intention: to take strategy less seriously
and so promote better strategies. Besides, why not have a good time
reading a strategy book for a change. Isn't it time for strategy to bite
back?"
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Strategic
Intent
by Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad
Companies that have risen to global leadership over the past 20 years
invariably began with ambitions out of proportion to their resources and
capabilities. This concept, fundamentally different from that which
underpins Western management thought, is "strategic intent."
These organizations begin with a goal that exceeds their present grasp and
existing resources. They then rally the organization to close the gap by
setting challenges that focus employees' efforts in the near to medium
term. The result is a global leadership position and an approach to
competition that has reduced larger, stronger Western rivals to an endless
game of catch-up.
This article forms part of the authors' 1994-bestseller 'Competing for the
Future'
Applied
Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works
by Leonard Goodstein, Timothy Nolan, J. William Pfeiffer
Written by three top consultants and trainers, "Applied Strategic
Planning" shows managers and CEOs a clear, effective way to identify
and implement strategic objectives. Their strategic planning model places
emphasis on organizational culture, the integration of business and
functional plans, the performance audit, and gap analysis.
Rise
and Fall of Strategic Planning
by Henry Mintzberg
One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg
concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned
because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. That
is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and so dramatically.
Mintzberg traces the origins and history of strategic planning through its
prominence and subsequent fall. He argues that we must reconceive the
process by which strategies are created -- by emphasizing informal
learning and personal vision -- and the roles that can be played by
planners.
Book
of Five Rings : The Classic Guide to Strategy
by Miyamoto Musashi
Translated by V. Harris. Japan's answer to the Harvard MBA...Written over
three centuries ago by a Samurai warrior, the book has been hailed as a
limitless source of psychological insight for businessmen-or anyone who
relies on strategy and tactics for outwitting the competition.
The
Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
by Peter Schwartz |