Strategic Journey - (Revised Edition)

Author: Henry Mintzberg
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Strategic formulation is regarded as a high-end task in management, but managers surrounded by trends and decision dilemmas still grope around "strategy" like blind men touching an elephant, trying to find weapons to solve problems. Henry Mintzberg, along with two other authors, deduced an internally connected strategic formation school from 10 different strategic ideas. This book summarizes decades of research findings by a group of world-renowned strategic management scholars, offering a comprehensive review and refinement of the vast body of work on strategy. It is a must-read for researchers in strategic management. Its value lies not only in showing us a roadmap of the development of strategic management over more than half a century, guiding us to experience and appreciate the comprehensive, enlightening, and diverse essence of strategic thinking, but more importantly, it helps us, these "blind men," to see the elephant of strategic management. Today, an excessive preference for popular, new, and hot views is harmful to readers, as they mostly encounter mediocre new theories rather than brilliant classics. The authors of this book, free from such biases, simply review the evolution of the strategic formation process and describe the current state of the field. The authors strongly believe in the immense impact of time on strategic management literature and practice, much like it does on fermented wine—it reveals what is truly precious. Therefore, the authors confidently revisit these many brilliant classics for the readers. Similarly, we sincerely present this classic work to the readers.