Lords of Strategy

Apologies and Thanks

Every day, in offices and plants across the face of the earth, thousands labor to forge strategy for their companies and, even more difficult, to implement their designs. Over the course of thirty years I’ve had the benefit of talking with many of these people, of having them explain what they’re about, and of learning from them. I admire them and what they do. If, per the suggestion of one witty observer, business occupies as dominant a place in world civilization today as the Roman Catholic Church did in fifteenth century Europe, they are the vital clergy in a worldwide movement making for the betterment of mankind.

But this book isn’t about them, or at least not as much as it perhaps ought to be. For all the articles ...