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Author by : Walter Kiechel
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010
Publisher by : Harvard Business Press
ISBN : 9781591397823
Journalist and editor Walter Kiechel recounts the birth and evolution of strategy, arguably the most influential business paradigm of the past half century and the trials and triumphs of the disruptors who invented it....
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Author by : Walter Kiechel
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-03-03
Publisher by : Harvard Business Press
ISBN : 9781422157312
Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as never before, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. In The Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editor Walter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry: Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the way we work....
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Author by : Duff McDonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Publisher by : Simon and Schuster
ISBN : 9781439190982
A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of the controversial consulting firm traces its decades-long influence in both business and political arenas, citing its role in the establishment of mainstream practices and modern understandings about capitalism while evaluating the failures that have compromised its reputation. 60,000 first printing....
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Author by : Richard Rumelt
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011-07-19
Publisher by : Currency
ISBN : 9780307886231
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. 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 Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity....
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Author by : Joe Grant Bell
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1997
Publisher by : Prima Games
ISBN : 0761511474
Designed from the beginning with multiple players in mind, Lords of Magic, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Lords of Realm II, supports up to four players over an IPX Network or two-player head-to-head battles via modem. With the help of this guide, gamers will master 11 battle tactics, lizards, and dark sorcery players....
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Author by : Carl W. Stern
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2012-06-14
Publisher by : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN : 9781118429129
A collection of the best thinking from one of the mostinnovative management consulting firms in the world For more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has beenshaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston ConsultingGroup on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection ofthe firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, andpractical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs inevery industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinkingyou'll find inside: "You have to be the scientist of your own life and be astonishedfour times:at what is, what always has been, what once was, andwhat could be." "The majority of products in most companies are cash traps . . ..[They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporateresources." "Use more debt than your competition or get out of thebusiness." "When information flows freely, reputation, more thanreciprocity,becomes the basis for trust." "As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money,productivity,quality, even innovation." "When brands become business systems, brand management becomesfar too important to leave to the marketing department." "The winning organization of the future will look more like acollection ofjazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra." "Most of our organizations today derive from a model whoseoriginal purpose was to control creativity." "Rather than being an obstacle, uncertainty is the very engineof transformation in a business, a continuous source of newopportunities." "IP assets lack clear property lines. Every bit of intellectualproperty you can own comes with connections to other valuableinnovations."...
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Author by : Martin Kihn
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2009-06-27
Publisher by : Business Plus
ISBN : 9780446562461
In the bestselling tradition of "Liar's Poker" comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting....
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Author by : David S. J. Hodgson
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2004
Publisher by : Prima Games
ISBN : 9780761547488
You are the Republic's only hope . . . or biggest threat. -Detailed stats, equipment, and ability descriptions for all party members -Covers all main allies and foes -Exhaustive Jedi Mastery helps you master each Jedi class -Detailed maps for every planet and location -Construct the ultimate weapon and armor kits with our expert workbench tips -All Secret Powers unearthed! -All Jedi Party Members Revealed! -The best ranged and melee weapons combat tested and approved!...
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Author by : Bart Farkas
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1997
Publisher by : Prima Games
ISBN : 076150947X
Life's tough in the 13th century: The peasants demand food, the blacksmith needs iron, the battles are bloody. Not to worry! GetLords of the Realm II: The Official Strategy Guideand learn: How to feed your people and forge your weapons Strategy options and their effects Details on weapons, castles, and terrain The art of diplomacy -- the velvet glove and the mailed fist The finer points of computer or head-to-head play About the Author Bart Farkasis Editor-in-Chief ofInside Mac Gamesand the author ofWing Commander IV Unauthorized Secrets and Solutions(Prima)....
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Author by : Everest Media,
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z
Publisher by : Everest Media LLC
ISBN : 9798822505094
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The rise of strategy as the framework through which companies understand what they’re doing and want to do has eclipsed any other change in the intellectual landscape of business over the past fifty years. #2 The secret intellectual history of the new corporate world is as much about the challenges companies faced, from competing with the Japanese in the 1970s to surviving a crisis in the global financial system in the twenty-first century. #3 The strategy revolution was led by management consultants, who were able to put together all the elements that determined a company’s corporate fate. They lacked a rigorous sense of the dynamics of competition, though. #4 The book is an essay rather than a history, meaning it incorporates the personal observations of the author. It is an account of the ideas behind the strategy revolution, and it includes interviews with several of the lords of strategy....