Chapter 3: Strategy
Nine organizational blueprints from which to draft your own.
Strategy is the sum of all a company does to compete in the marketplace. Decisions range from whether or not to offer free shipping to determining if Omaha is the best place for the new plant. Are you going to thrust or feint? There are an infinite number of ways to put the pieces together, and these books show that some combinations are better than others.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
Thomas J Peters, Robert H Waterman
Harper Business
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Harper Business
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Revised)
Jim Collins, Jerry I Porras
Harper Business
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M Christensen
Harvard Business Review Press
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Andrew S Grove
Broadway Business
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change
Louis V Gerstner
Harper Business
Discovering the Soul of Service
Leonard L Berry
Free Press
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Currency
Competing for the Future (Revised)
Gary Hamel, C K Prahalad
Harvard Business Review Press
