Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Mangament

Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning "The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning", has teamed up with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel to create a powerful antidote: a comprehensive and illuminating-- as well as colorful-- tour through the fields of strategic management. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel have shaped each of ten different approaches into a coherent school of strategy formation. In the process, the authors clarify the enormous amount of confusion that exists.

The result is a tour de force: a brilliant, penetrating primer on business strategy that is, at the same time, immensely readable and fun. The authors provide a thorough critique of the contributions and limitations of each school-- from the design, planning, positioning, entrepreneurial, and cognitive schools to the learning, power, cultural, environmental, and configurational schools-- culminating in how they might combine to reveal that elephant.

Unique, insightful, and essential, "Strategy Safari" is the indispensable guide for the creative manager.

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Title of ebook: Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Mangament
ISBN: 9780684831732
parent-ISBN: 9780684847436
Publisher: Free Press
Pages: 416
Published: 09-2000
Released online for download: 09-01-2000
Author of eBook: Mintzberg, Henry
Joint Author: Lampel, Joseph
Joint Author: Ahlstrand, Bruce

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Strategy Safari

A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

Chapter One

"AND OVER HERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT BEAST"

THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT

by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.

The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to brawl: "God bless me but the Elephant Is very like a wall."

The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! What have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal, ... read full excerpt from: Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Mangament ebook

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Strategy Safari

Chapter One

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