HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

The book is about Marketing and it has all the knowlledge you need to pick up your business. If you are studying Marketing or if you want to business to stand out from others, you might want to take a look at this book.

Excellent product and service.

The book takes the ten articles that have been chosen as the most valuable by the book’s editor - clearly this is a subjective choice. The main focus of the articles is the behavioural aspects of decisions with, in our view, rather too little coverage of analytical tools and techniques. Of the remaining articles, three focus on decision making processes and these become rather tedious, focussing more on what can go wrong than what is needed to get them right. There is however one excellent article by Bain - the last in the book - on the negative aspects of complex annual planning processes and how these tend to stop the right decisions being taken at the right time. This should be read by the CEOs and CFOs of those companies whose annual planning cycles dominate business life for months on end; we’ve come across quite a few. Despite these reservations the book and series is recommended for those who want to keep in touch with academic thinking on particular topics. Each article has an excellent short summary under the ‘Idea in Brief’ heading, which allows the reader easily to focus on issues of particular interest.

Excellent read giving a detailed overview of the "must read" sections of business strategy. Great reference material and all in one location. Suitable for business and academic life.

I needed to learn about this topic and this book was very helpful. Written in a clear manner, it gave me the understanding I needed to complete an important project.

A good range of stuff from some of the key thinkers, in fairly brief form. It does however stay mainly in the more traditional territory of planned, rational strategising models. You may want to go elsewhere if you want some stronger challenge and critique of this worldview, but it's all good stuff..

Must read indeed!

Good read.

1e deel was beter

Anyone who has ever attended a leadership offsite to develop a vision & mission statement will enjoy this book. Most offsites develop mission statements that are forgotten when everyone returns to work. This book does a great job of highlighting what most managers do not understand about strategy. All ten articles provide clear and actionable insight that can be helpful to any leader. The authors paint a picture of the differences between operational efficiency and strategic vision. Some articles discuss the need for communication across organizational boundaries. Other articles provide insightful questions that can be used to develop a sound strategic vision. Several of the articles use real world examples to illustrate certain points. Stated another way, the book not only defines strategy, it gives the reader some nice tools to evolve their own strategic thinking. Altogether, this book provides a nice comprehensive look at strategy. Since each chapter stands alone, the reader can finish a section, think about it, and then come back later for more. I certainly walked away from this book with a new way to think about strategy and where my organization should be headed.

It’s worth it.

Lo que comenzó sirviendo principalmente como una disciplina de guerra, hoy es parte del léxico de cualquier empresa o negocio, por eso lo mejor que tiene este libro para ofrecer es 10 acercamientos diferentes a entender, definir y actuar en función de una búsqueda de poder. Al leerlo podrás encontrar diferentes acercamientos a un proceso que es fluido y muchas veces ambiguo. Excelente opción si lo que buscas es generar una manera de pensar que te ayude a adaptarte al cambio constante.

** No es un texto muy original precisamente, parece bastante desfasado ya que se simplemente explica modelos de estrategia de las grandes multinacionales de las últimas 3 décadas del siglo XX. Propone soluciones "originales" dentro del enfoque de la era industrial, pasando totalmente por alto que ahora nos encontramos en un nuevo paradigma de la industria del conocimiento. ¿Redes sociales? ¿Creación de audiencias y grupos de interés? Cero. Aunque sí se pueden encontrar algunos conceptos de interés transferibles a los nuevos negocios, NO me ha parecido muy útil para quien quiera poner en marcha su empresa desde cero hoy en día. Además el estilo de escritura es farragoso, deliberada e innecesariamente complejo y aburrido.