Book : Strategy Safari A Guided Tour Through The Wilds Of...

-Titulo Original : Strategy Safari A Guided Tour Through The Wilds Of Strategic Management

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Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool-it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide. Strategy Safari makes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades. Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth, Strategy Safari maps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation. Review Read the book. Let Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel guide you on an enlightening and entertaining excursion through the field of strategy making. -- Lawrence Bennigson, Senior Fellow of the Executive Development Center of the Harvard Business SchoolStrategy Safari makes a convincing case for juggling several approaches at once. This book furnishes the complete tool set for every manager involved in strategy formation. -- Report on Business About the Author Henry Mintzberg is the author of several seminal books, including The Nature of Managerial Work, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Managers Not MBAs. He is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University.Joseph Lampel is Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School, at City University London. He is the co-editor of the fourth edition of The Strategy Process and of The Business of Culture: Strategic Perspectives in Media and Entertainment.Bruce Ahlstrand is a Professor at Trent University in Ontario. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One: AND OVER HERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT BEASTTHE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANTby John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)It was six men of IndostanTo learning much inclined,Who went to see the Elephant(Though all of them were blind)That each by observationMight satisfy his mind.The First approached the Elephant,And happening to fallAgainst his broad and sturdy side,At once began to brawl:God bless me but the ElephantIs very like a wall.The Second, feeling of the tusk,Cried, Ho! What have we hereSo very round and smooth and sharp?To me tis mighty clearThis wonder of an ElephantIs very like a spear!The Third approached the animal,And happening to takeThe squirming trunk within his hands,Thus boldly up and spake:I see, quoth he, The ElephantIs very like a snake!The Fourth reached out an eager hand,And felt around the knee,What most this wondrous beast is likeIs mighty plain, quoth he;Tis clear enough the ElephantIs very like a tree!The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,Said: Een the blindest manCan tell what this resembles most;Deny the fact who can,This marvel of an ElephantIs very like a fan!The Sixth no sooner had begunAbout the beast to grope,Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope,I see, quoth he, the Elephantis very like a rope!And so these men of IndostanDisputed loud and long,Each of his own opinionExceeding stiff and strong,Though each was partly in the right,And all were in the wrong!MoralSo oft in theologic wars,The disputants, I ween,Rail on in utter ignoranceOf what each other mean,And prate about an ElephantNot one of them has seen!We are the blind people and strategy formation is our elephant. Since no one has had the vision to see the