September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 52m
English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded (featuring "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy" by Michael E. Porter)
by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Roger L. Martin
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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially
by Roger L. Martin
The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy-development problem his firm was facing and ask for my advice. The company was an eager user of my “cascading choices” framework for strategy, which I have used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in Playing to Win, the 2013 book I wrote with friend and colleague A.G. Lafley.
My Australian friend explained that each of his five business-unit presidents was using the Strategy Choice Cascade and that all of them had gotten stuck in the same place. They had chosen a Winning Aspiration and had settled on a Where to Play choice. But all of them were ...
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