Nosemonkey’s Reviews > Strategy: A History > Status Update

This business strategy section is excellent. So far successfully dismissing almost all popular business strategy theories as at best flawed, but usually utter bullshit. Hurrah!

On to the business strategy section, and so much makes sense now. So many idiot managers who've obviously read one or two management books and decided to follow just one theory, not realising that things have moved on. Because most management theory is, quite obviously I thought, utter bollocks. This makes clear how those theories developed, which makes them much more understandable. But still bollocks.

Still lots of focus on left-wing political movements, many of which seemed to have insufficient strategic thinking. Again, interesting - but feels quite a long-winded way of making a point, with lots of details which, while interesting, aren't strictly necessary.


Still good, though - it's just there's often many pages where the strategy elements aren't obvious.

Chapter 22, and it's getting more obviously strategic again - political strategy, the use of myth, propaganda, cultural shifts, the rise of party, the manipulation of crowds. Good stuff.

Cold War strategy section makes it even clearer that rational irrationality and mutually assured destruction are the way the Brexiters are approaching negotiations with the EU. FFS.