Strategy Bites Back is the antidote to conventional strategy books -- and conventional strategy formation. Edited by the legendary Henry Mintzberg, it contains contributions from everyone from Gary Hamel to Napoleon Bonaparte, Michael Porter to Hans Christian Andersen: essays, poems, case studies, cartoons, whatever it takes to 'free your mind' and unleash the crucial emotional side of strategy formation. Coverage includes: strategy and brinkmanship, culture, seduction; strategy lessons from your mother, from beehives, chess grandmasters, even the National Zoo. Along the way, Mintzberg and his colleagues take on the sacred cows and entrenched beliefs that keep strategists from recognizing their most powerful options. Strategy Bites Back doesn't just make strategy fun: it helps define strategies that offer huge upsides and real inspiration.
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"Having previously read Strategy Safari by the same authos and enjoyed it for its clarity and common sense, I was keen to delve into this - their latest offering... The bytes are... short and punchy... Many are very funny, but all are thought provoking in their own way... it provides some insightful reflectons on the component parts of business strategy... a readable book that also made me laugh."
--March Human Resources Magazine (circ: 28,538) - written by Kathy Osborne:
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Strategy Bites Back is the antidote to conventional strategy books -- and conventional strategy formation. Edited by the legendary Henry Mintzberg, it contains contributions from everyone from Gary Hamel to Napoleon Bonaparte, Michael Porter to Hans Christian Andersen: essays, poems, case studies, cartoons, whatever it takes to 'free your mind' and unleash the crucial emotional side of strategy formation. Coverage includes: strategy and brinkmanship, culture, seduction; strategy lessons from your mother, from beehives, chess grandmasters, even the National Zoo. Along the way, Mintzberg and his colleagues take on the sacred cows and entrenched beliefs that keep strategists from recognizing their most powerful options. Strategy Bites Back doesn't just make strategy fun: it helps define strategies that offer huge upsides and real inspiration.
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Pure Genius!,
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This review is from: Strategy Bites Back: It Is A Lot More, And Less, Than You Ever Imagined... (Paperback)
This is pure genius at work. I bow my head in awe. This is not recommended reading, this is the kind of book you MUST read if you're into strategy. Cut down on Porter, Kay, Drucker, etc., and read this instead! After reading this, you can re-visit the old schools and see the world in a different light. In short, I am ecstatic. You'll pry this book from my dead hands (if you can get it away from me even then...).
Read it, or you'll miss a very funny book (if you don't laugh out load a number of times, you lack all sense of humour) as well as a very thought-provoking book with a very important message, which even manages to make strategy fun (you'll understand more after having read the book). Together with Strategy Safari (by the same authors) and Johnson & Scholes books, this should be enough to get anyone to understand and work with strategy. This has to be one of this decades most important/influential books, so I'll recommend it warmly.
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Were Going To Need A Bigger Boat,
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This review is from: Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined (Hardcover)
Just about every book on strategy, or for that matter, every strategy meeting I have ever attended, has been a bit dry to boring. With all this dull talk you usually get a strategy that is less the inspired, more standard and generic then anything else. The authors state that the most successful and interesting companies they know are not boring places, but dynamic and fast moving places. They have novel, creative and inspiring strategies. So the authors believe that we should have fun in creating strategy and in the bargain we will get a better outcome.
The authors spend a good deal of time putting examples into each of the chapters so that the reader can better understand the particular section. They also toss in any number of interesting and many times humorous, extra bits of info to help you not take yourself too seriously. They highlight the people and ideas they believe are worth reviewing, but they do not hold out any one to be the end all be all. Overall the book was fast paced and enjoyable. They took all the pain out of the topic and gave the reader a book that was exciting to open up. They give you solid and beneficial ideas that can be used on any size project or business unit. The book is well worth the time.
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Good source,
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This review is from: Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined (Hardcover)
This book is a source of other works about strategy. The book has a balance between Theory and Practice. The theory is well covered by some star authors in the field of strategy. In the other side, some news and interviews are the sample of practice of strategy in business. Im still prefer the Strategy Safari, but this book is still valuable.
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New York, Harvard Business School, World War, Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, Henry Mintzberg, United States, Jack Welch, Michael Porter, Sage Publications, Financial Times, The Economist, West Edmonton, Jeanne Liedtka, Richard Branson, Tower of Babel, California Management Review, Englewood Cliffs, Ian Wilson, John Wiley, Los Angeles, Prentice Hall New!
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Strategy can be awfully boring. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Harvard Business School, World War, Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, Henry Mintzberg, United States, Jack Welch, Michael Porter, Sage Publications, Financial Times, The Economist, West Edmonton, Jeanne Liedtka, Richard Branson, Tower of Babel, California Management Review, Englewood Cliffs, Ian Wilson, John Wiley, Los Angeles, Prentice Hall New!
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- Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg on page 85, page 142, and page 246
- The Seven Deadly Sins by W. H. Auden in Front Matter, and page 62
- Whatever Happened to the British Motorcycle Industry? by Bert Hopwood on page 205, and page 206
- Strategic Planning by George A. Steiner in Front Matter, and page 142
- Top Management Planning (Studies of the Modern Corporation) by George Albert Steiner in Front Matter, and page 75
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