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Strategy Safari

A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Mangament

By Joseph Lampel, Bruce Ahlstrand, Henry Mintzberg

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| Paperback | 9780743270571

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Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, has teamed Continue

Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, has teamed up with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel to create a powerful antidote: a comprehensive and illuminating -- as well as colorful -- tour through the fields of strategic management. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel have shaped each of ten different approaches into a coherent school of strategy formation. In the process, the authors clarify the enormous amount of confusion that exists.

The result is a tour de force: a brilliant, penetrating primer on business strategy that is, at the same time, immensely readable and fun. The authors provide a thorough critique of the contributions and limitations of each school -- from the design, planning, positioning, entrepreneurial, and cognitive schools to the learning, power, cultural, environmental, and configurational schools -- culminating in how they might combine to reveal that elephant.

Unique, insightful, and essential, Strategy Safari is the indispensable guide for the creative manager.

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  • Minzberg depicts strategy as one big elephant and the hunt to discover that elephant is on. This standard work about strategy (systems / schools) and it is a great start if you are interested in the topic. Including references to Karl Weick, Von Clausewitz and The Power Laws (Green/Ellfers), about f ... (continue)

    Minzberg depicts strategy as one big elephant and the hunt to discover that elephant is on. This standard work about strategy (systems / schools) and it is a great start if you are interested in the topic. Including references to Karl Weick, Von Clausewitz and The Power Laws (Green/Ellfers), about from the usual suspects like Hamel & Prahalad, Porter, Ansoff,… But also about political gaming within firms and Honda’s real strategy by starting up business in the US (and how wrong BCG was about it).

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 416 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0743270576
  • ISBN-13: 9780743270571
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Pub date: May 31, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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