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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)
Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring �What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development a...more
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring �What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development a...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 7th 2011
by Harvard Business Review Press
(first published December 16th 2010)
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I just invested in myself with the HBR’S 10 Must Reads Collection by Harvard Business Review Press. This series is really good because each book has 10 of the best articles published by Harvard University on each topic. I think it is a must read for any ambitious manager, new or experienced leader.
It is easy to read, each book has approximately 300 pages. Each chapter is an article from great authors such as Peter F. Drucker, Theodore Levitt, Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton and others. One of...more
It is easy to read, each book has approximately 300 pages. Each chapter is an article from great authors such as Peter F. Drucker, Theodore Levitt, Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton and others. One of...more
Great way to get a quick overview of what organizational strategy is all about. For the reader who is not currently managing an organization, a couple of the articles are going to be snoozers ("Using a Balanced Scorecard" and the one about clear decision roles), but the rest are good. The two Michael Porter articles and the two about innovation ("Blue Ocean Strategy" and "Reinventing Your Business Model") were particularly interesting and, in my opinion, would be useful for anyone in any field t...more
As the sub headline says, this is the book to read "if you read nothing else on strategy".
Not meant for (experienced) strategists as this book presents a rather succinct version of famous/more popular strategic concepts (e.g. Michael Porter's 5 forces). I feel this is good as an introduction to strategy and could possibly help employees in MNCs to see the point of the various administrative tasks they have to carry out (e.g. meet criteria/KPIs of the balance scorecard)
Not meant for (experienced) strategists as this book presents a rather succinct version of famous/more popular strategic concepts (e.g. Michael Porter's 5 forces). I feel this is good as an introduction to strategy and could possibly help employees in MNCs to see the point of the various administrative tasks they have to carry out (e.g. meet criteria/KPIs of the balance scorecard)
A good collection of HBR articles. Porter's seminal works of "what is strategy" and "The five competitive forces that shape strategy" is a must read for any one looking for or in a corporate carrier. This books serves only as a starting point for reading on strategy. The essays are not consistent with each other except that they all are on the field of strategy.
Articles were good, but this was a collection of previously published articles - - some from as much as 15 years ago. While strategy consideration persist, more recent examples and more updated articles would be better.
From Porter's 5 forces to how Sales Strategy can be aligned, this book offers a variety of flavour to people who are trying to decode the thing called "Strategy."
Strategy from what I learnt is not something that provides organisations with operational efficiency but rather a set of activities which are done differently to achieve differentiated business outcome.
Strategy from what I learnt is not something that provides organisations with operational efficiency but rather a set of activities which are done differently to achieve differentiated business outcome.
This is just an amazing set of articles around strategy. The first two from Michael Porter were tough ones, i could berely follow to a degree i was thinking to drop the book. I skipped the second article and moved on, and the rest of articels were amazing.. especially the ones related to vision, blue ocean strategy, execution, and the strategy principles. I would highly recommend this book for those with business backgound (either their own, or have been working for the past 5 years or so).
Mar 03, 2013
V
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Funny to read, general applicable
A quite interesting book. Like all article collections this book has ups and downs. Certainly its first four articles are interesting and enjoyable. Some of the later articles are long on opinion and short on practicalities ('Who gets the D?' being a prime offender) and some of the articles lack sufficient pointers to background material (the balanced scorecard article has this problem).
Overall this book does what it says on the tin. Whether that's appropriate for you is the deeper question....
Overall this book does what it says on the tin. Whether that's appropriate for you is the deeper question....
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