HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, August 9, 2016

I've read over 100 business books over the last 2 years. I keep my top 12 business books on my desk as business manuals for review. Without a doubt this book is one of those 12. An overall great view of business strategy from 10,000 ft above.Golden nuggets: Have a core purpose - Make it inspringingSet core values - Allows employees to make decisions for themselves based upon these valuesGreat follow up book: Playing to Win

Anyone who has ever attended a leadership offsite to develop a vision & mission statement will enjoy this book. Most offsites develop mission statements that are forgotten when everyone returns to work. This book does a great job of highlighting what most managers do not understand about strategy. All ten articles provide clear and actionable insight that can be helpful to any leader.The authors paint a picture of the differences between operational efficiency and strategic vision. Some articles discuss the need for communication across organizational boundaries. Other articles provide insightful questions that can be used to develop a sound strategic vision. Several of the articles use real world examples to illustrate certain points. Stated another way, the book not only defines strategy, it gives the reader some nice tools to evolve their own strategic thinking.Altogether, this book provides a nice comprehensive look at strategy. Since each chapter stands alone, the reader can finish a section, think about it, and then come back later for more. I certainly walked away from this book with a new way to think about strategy and where my organization should be headed.

No business can launch successfully or survive long-term without sound strategy. These ten articles from the Harvard Business Review provide invaluable tips for business strategy, but some of them can be applicable to one's personal life as well. The articles discuss what strategy is and how it can be used to create a position of competitive advantage and sustainability. In business as in wider life, one of the articles relates, strategy is what you decide to do, but perhaps even more vitally, it is what you decide not to do.The articles describe the forces that shape competition in response to which one must develop strategy. Core principles, missions, and reasons for being can remain the same for decades or even a century or longer, but methods and activities can and often must change over time to remain true to one's core principles.The process of setting goals is discussed, as well as how to have the vision to know when and how to expand into new markets. The articles note the all-important process of executing strategy once it has been developed, including the clarification of decision-making processes. This is another solid collection of articles from the Harvard Business Review.

I read this book as part of my exploration of the HBR "10 Must Reads" series. In typical HBR style, this book contains an eclectic collection of articles which come together to provide one of the most comprehensive tomes I've seen on business and personal strategy.I recommend it to anyone who is trying to understand the core concepts of strategy, especially those who need to identify and separate various tactical actions and operational principles from the underlying strategic principles. I found these insights from some of the world's brightest minds to be just what I needed to properly set me on the path to become a much more strategic leader.

There is a lot of great content but a bit hard to get through even though it is only short articles. I put it down and came back to it a year later to finally get through the whole thing.

This book is a gem that every business leader and certainly every management consultant ought to have in their collection. Heavyweight management scholars talk about something that is so important to driving success in business. Business leaders often get caught up in operational effectiveness and dousing fire after fire without taking a step back and truly thinking about what forms the framework for the success of the company. This book is a collection from great minds in management and strategy.

excellent for any MBA student or business student.

The book was very insightful. Easy to read and understand.

The book takes the ten articles that have been chosen as the most valuable by the book’s editor - clearly this is a subjective choice.The main focus of the articles is the behavioural aspects of decisions with, in our view, rather too little coverage of analytical tools and techniques. Of the remaining articles, three focus on decision making processes and these become rather tedious, focussing more on what can go wrong than what is needed to get them right. There is however one excellent article by Bain - the last in the book - on the negative aspects of complex annual planning processes and how these tend to stop the right decisions being taken at the right time. This should be read by the CEOs and CFOs of those companies whose annual planning cycles dominate business life for months on end; we’ve come across quite a few.Despite these reservations the book and series is recommended for those who want to keep in touch with academic thinking on particular topics. Each article has an excellent short summary under the ‘Idea in Brief’ heading, which allows the reader easily to focus on issues of particular interest.

Some really classic texts laid out in a very clear way

I bought it specially for the article of Mikael Porter. But other article worth it too.

Excellent read giving a detailed overview of the "must read" sections of business strategy. Great reference material and all in one location.Suitable for business and academic life.

It is good