Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)

Introduction

How Strategy Really Works

This is a book about strategy, written by a former CEO and a business school dean. When we met, we were neither of those things. More than twenty years ago, when we first worked together on a study of P&G’s distribution channels, it was as a category manager in P&G’s laundry business and an outside consultant from a small but growing strategy firm called Monitor Company. Working on that assignment, we formed the basis of a very productive and very long friendship. By the time we became, respectively, CEO of P&G and dean of the Rotman School of Management, we were true thinking partners on strategy and worked together in earnest on the transformation of P&G between 2000 and 2009. This book is the story of ...