Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Audiobook (Free)

Good Strategy/Poor Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying way too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.

Developing and applying a strategy may be the central job of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to-and approach for-overcoming the hurdles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows about Good Technique Bad Technique: The Difference and Why It Issues that there has been an evergrowing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie beliefs, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.”

In Good Technique/Bad Strategy, he debunks these components of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of the “good strategy.” He introduces nine resources of power-ranging from using leverage to successfully concentrating on growth-that are eye-opening however pragmatic equipment that can simply be placed to focus on Mon morning, and uses interesting examples from business, non-profit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to lifestyle. The detailed illustrations range from Apple to General Motors, from both Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local marketplace to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Images, through the Getty Trust to the LA Unified School Area, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing towards the 2007-08 financial crisis.

Reflecting an astonishing understand and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy is due to Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.