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The lords of strategy : the secret intellectual history of the new corporate world / Walter Kiechel.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.ISBN:
  • 9781591397823
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD30.28 .K54 2010
Contents:
Preface: Three common beliefs to be discarded -- Strategy as a case to be cracked -- Bruce Henderson defines the subject -- The experience curve delivers a shock -- Loading the matrix -- What Bill Bain wanted -- Waking up McKinsey -- Michael Porter encounters the surreal -- The human stain -- The paradigm that failed? -- Struggling to make something actually happen -- Breaking the world into finer pieces -- The wizards of finance reveal strategy's true purpose -- How competencies came to be core -- The revolution conquers the world -- Three versions of strategy as people -- And where was strategy when the global financial system collapsed? -- Coda: The future of strategy.
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Preface: Three common beliefs to be discarded --
Strategy as a case to be cracked --
Bruce Henderson defines the subject --
The experience curve delivers a shock --
Loading the matrix --
What Bill Bain wanted --
Waking up McKinsey --
Michael Porter encounters the surreal --
The human stain --
The paradigm that failed? --
Struggling to make something actually happen --
Breaking the world into finer pieces --
The wizards of finance reveal strategy's true purpose --
How competencies came to be core --
The revolution conquers the world --
Three versions of strategy as people --
And where was strategy when the global financial system collapsed? --
Coda: The future of strategy.