{"product_id":"good-strategy-bad-strategy-the-difference-and-why-it-matters-hardcover","title":"Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Rumelt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Strategy\/Bad Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeveloping and implementing a strategy is \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003ecentral task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to--and approach for--overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with \"strategy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGood Strategy\/Bad Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e, he debunks these elements of \"bad strategy\" and awakens an understanding of the power of a \"good strategy.\" He introduces nine sources of power--ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth--that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007-08 financial crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, \u003ci\u003eGood Strategy\/Bad Strategy \u003c\/i\u003estems from Rumelt's decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRICHARD P. RUMELT\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world's most influential thinkers on strategy and management. \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003eprofiled him as one of twenty-five living persons who have had the most influence on management concepts and corporate practice. \u003ci\u003eMcKinsey Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003edescribed him as being \"strategy's strategist\" and as \"a giant in the field of strategy.\" Throughout his career he has defined the cutting edge of strategy, initiating the systematic economic study of strategy, developing the idea that companies that focus on core skills perform best, and that superior performance is not a matter of being in the right industry but comes from a firm's individual excellence. He is one of the founders of the resource-based view of strategy, a perspective that breaks with the market-power tradition, explaining performance in terms of unique specialized resources. Richard Rumelt received his doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, holds the Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and is a consultant to small firms such as the Samuel Goldwyn Company and giants such as Shell International, as well as to organizations in the educational and not-for-profit worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 9.36 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45311901106278,"sku":"9780307886231","price":43.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/N1IrTjFoZ2JOT3NpMW1FUDQxZDAwQT09.webp?v=1774306236","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/good-strategy-bad-strategy-the-difference-and-why-it-matters-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}