In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This book changed the way I think about how I want to get things done both in my work and in my personal life. Also strategy is not just goals or guiding policies, strategy is about action, about doing something. An exceptional book. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. by Crown Business The examples and advice are mostly related to business (usually large corporations), but they also deal with nonprofits and government.
This is such a great book, but I debated rating it 4 stars because I felt some of the examples dragged on a little, becoming slightly monotonous. From the author's forty years experience as a research, teacher at UCLA and as a consultant, he brings on nuggets of wisdom on ways to formulating good strategies and staying away from bad ones. If there is one criticism of such a wonderful book is that it would be easy to have a parallel of his ideas and concepts with those of other great strategists like Porter or Mintzberg so that this could be even more useful for the strategy field, by clearly pointing out in the text, or at least creating a table of equivalence between the informal language of Rumelt and published well acknowledge concepts of strategy from other authors and mainstream textbooks also on good strategy, The author suggests learnings and applications from his examples, and although quite complex in places it is all very readable. A good primer for strategy. One of the best "business" books I've read. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. The author cuts the fat while explaining the strategy making process, making it more accessible to the average reader using a plethora of case studies. Please try your request again later. I think quite a lot. Rumelt cuts through the common strategy jargon and differentiates real strategy from misguided goal setting. The style is straight forward, there is a wealth of positive and negative examples (the author has an incredible amount of experience to draw from), and plenty of insight which I'm fairly certain will permanently change how I think about strategy.This is a beautiful book with clear writing and brilliant examples. From the author's forty years experience as a research, teacher at UCLA and as a consultant, he brings on nuggets of wisdom on ways to formulating good strategies and staying away from bad ones.

I have personally witnessed my public sector employers pay tens of thousands of £s to consultants for strategic documents, and then watched them return with nothing more than a bunch of meaningless pap bound up with a load of goals and targets. His central thesis is that good strategy has good structure, a "kernel" consisting of a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and a coherent action."
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Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of I somehow ended buying this book in four separate formats – Kindle, Audible, Apple Books and hardcover. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco … 'It is embarrassing for an intelligent adult to be associated with this sort of bloviating' is one of many (this one being targeted at Cornell's benign mission statement). This ended up being super distracting for me when combined with the fact that there is tons of fluff in the book (ironically one of the things he criticizes).There is some good information here about how and why to structure a strategy, coupled together with what makes a bad strategy and how to find/avoid them. Start by marking “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” as Want to Read: I liked the cases he presented to get his points across, though I think that for some he got a bit too into it and made them very difficult to keep up - I had to stop and google people and events.Quite good book. (If a good strategy is so obvious and mechanical, why don't all companies just do it and get it right?)



A keeper to refer back to no matter where you are in your career or on the corporate ladder; either to build a strategy or to sense check what someone is trying to convince you is a strategy. Well put together, though, and pithy. I like how it shows that much of what passes for strategy (goal-setting, vision) actually isn’t, and walks through how to form good strategy.An insightful but long-winded exploration of effective strategy. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. In a final section on thinking like a strategist, we get a sense of what a delight it must be to sit in Rumelt's classroom, or with him on a consulting assignment, as he leads us through the best kind of Socratic dialogue to appreciate the kinds of blinders or mass psychology that can pose the final barriers to our forging clear-eyed strategy.