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Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined

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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.

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.

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.

You've never read a business book quite like this one. Often with tongues planted firmly in cheek, authors Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joe Lampel tap a variety of sources in illuminating the frequently nebulous topic of strategy. The essays, anecdotes and quotes are unique, insightful and sometime humorous. And the book is not just nontraditional and cute: it also provides plenty of good, solid information on strategy. We recommend that you go ahead and take a big bite. Chew slowly and savor the flavor. It goes down easy.

good book to read on strategy as it makes you think, takes you out of your comfort zone and is a little zany. I like it. They dont take themselves too seriously and strategy either. It is written and compiled so that the stories are short and to the point and by different authors and thinkers in the world of strategy. Good diverse look at the topic

Other than some quotes and perspectives to consider - nothing of new news or ah-ha's in the book. For someone looking to find ways to shake up the planning process - this book did not help much

The title and book cover tells you it's not a boring book. The contents are not boring as well. A bit of wisdom here and there worth carrying with you on your next chit chat on strategy but I had a hard time with the book's flow.

I find it poorly organized jumping here and there. There are many authors which made it difficult to tie together but still, I think it could have been better.