HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

There are some really insightful chapters. They opened my mind forever. There are some chapters which I found boring. There are some very interesting ones. This is a mandatory study material for the Certified in Strategy & Competitive Analysis exam and therefore I purchased it. Coming to touch feel emotions. I found the book to be designed from some of the finest quality of Paper. Creases don't easily emerge in the book. The book can be easily hand-held. It has some character to it. It's a specimen of fewer words more quality.

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It is not a book you read one time and let it go . Being a finance professional it has definitively added perspective . Finance professional spend a lot of time number crunching, transactional processing , controlling, reporting , auditing etc, the primarily focus is looking inwards. Fund raising , investor relations too hover around communicating company's future plans and current progress. As such the day to day functioning rarely requires finance professionals to delve on what the company stands for or what it stood for and why we are business, what are the assumptions , are the summations changing etc. Economic environment yes, political environment perhaps perhaps, internal official environment oh of course. This book opened my mind to that unknown but a long time feeling that I am missing something.

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This is the best of all. Must read for all startegy consultants. Can't stress that enough.... Has a lot of useful articles

Although starts on very promising note with essays on strategy, competition, vision quite eye opening for a non business graduate. However it loses it slopes downward as it progresses leaving alone few peaks in between. Overall a good read for what it conveys through first few essays and underlying theme about importance of strategy.

Excellent articles. Worth reading. Might order other article as well.

1e deel was beter

It’s worth it.

Great book for people who like to learn business strategy.

Lo que comenzó sirviendo principalmente como una disciplina de guerra, hoy es parte del léxico de cualquier empresa o negocio, por eso lo mejor que tiene este libro para ofrecer es 10 acercamientos diferentes a entender, definir y actuar en función de una búsqueda de poder. Al leerlo podrás encontrar diferentes acercamientos a un proceso que es fluido y muchas veces ambiguo. Excelente opción si lo que buscas es generar una manera de pensar que te ayude a adaptarte al cambio constante.

** No es un texto muy original precisamente, parece bastante desfasado ya que se simplemente explica modelos de estrategia de las grandes multinacionales de las últimas 3 décadas del siglo XX. Propone soluciones "originales" dentro del enfoque de la era industrial, pasando totalmente por alto que ahora nos encontramos en un nuevo paradigma de la industria del conocimiento. ¿Redes sociales? ¿Creación de audiencias y grupos de interés? Cero. Aunque sí se pueden encontrar algunos conceptos de interés transferibles a los nuevos negocios, NO me ha parecido muy útil para quien quiera poner en marcha su empresa desde cero hoy en día. Además el estilo de escritura es farragoso, deliberada e innecesariamente complejo y aburrido.