Posted by john on 19 March, 2010 under Strategy | 
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The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World, by Walter Kiechel III, Harvard Business School Press, 2010.
Summary: A fascinating history of the past 40 years of corporate strategic ideas.
Posted by john on 28 January, 2010 under Strategy | Be the First to Comment
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, HBS Press 2005.
Summary: Blue Ocean Strategy is very useful in stimulating thinking about many different ways in which the delivery of products and services can be improved and differentiated to enhance profit margins.
