Strategy Bites Back is a friendly collection of essays and observations on some of the elements of strategy that intimidate people the most. Even readers who fail to appreciate all of the humor will undoubtedly enjoy paging through the book as a refreshing antidote to the footnote-laden tomes that usually make up the field.
The three authors have done a fine job of pulling together and reprinting short reflections on strategy by thinkers as diverse as Jack Welch, Michael Porter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mao Tse Tung, Gary Hamel, and Hans Christian Andersen. The book is also interspersed with short, punchy essays by the authors on a variety of topics: planning, flexibility, the strategy launch, and so on.
In short, we think the book is meaty enough to be serious yet also pleasantly entertaining, though perhaps not for beach reading.
– HBS Working Knowledge
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