Strategy Bites Back

Henry Mintzberg  Henry Mintzberg normally bites back on issues of management, organization, and corporate social irresponsibility (i.e., shareholder value), as well as management education and strategy. (Managers not MBAs, with Berrett-Koehler in the US and Financial Times Prentice Hall in Europe was his last book.) He managed to get a PhD in management at MIT and has slipped about 130 articles past unsuspecting editors.  He is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University.  Bruce Ahlstrand  Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold’em to the Greek tragedies. He is devoted to developing new and creative ways of teaching business strategy and has never met a case study that he liked. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author of The Quest for Productivity (Cambridge University Press) and co-author of Human Resource Management in the Multi-Divisional Company (Oxford University Press). He is a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.  Joseph Lampel  Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy is the answer, but has recently concluded that it may be the answer to the wrong question.   He first began to suspect this terrible truth during the long journey that produced the Strategy Safari.  Further research, and numerous publications in journals that are well received in polite academic society, only served to confirm this belief.     Joe was awarded a PhD in management by McGill University for good behavior.  He subsequently spent seven years at Stern School, NYU, trying to break into showbusiness.   He currently resides at Cass Business School, City University London, an institution that happily accommodates his quest to find the answer to strategy's unanswerable questions.  Henry, Bruce and Joe are also the authors of the bestselling Strategy Safari (Financial Times Prentice Hall).

• STRATEGY BITES BACK  - CONTENTS1. What's In A Word?What's in a Buzzword? Lucy Kellaway"Eenie, meenie, minie, mo…" The EconomistWhat is Strategy?  John KayFive P’s for Strategy, Henry MintzbergBeware of Strategy A. Inkpen and N. Choudhry  2. Swoted by StrategyThe other Tower of Babel Joseph LampelStrategy as a Little Black Dress Jeanne LiedtkaThe CEO as Strategist Michael PorterThe manager as Orchestra Conductor?The Tortoise and the Hare: a fable for senior executives John KayJack's Turn Henry Mintzberg3 STRATEGY CAREFULLY The Revolution in Strategic Planning - John ByrneJack Welch on Planning - Jack WelchThe Seven Deadly Sins of Planning - I. WilsonHow To Build Scenarios - Lawrence WilkinsonForecasting Whoops Plans in Case you are Stuck Karl WeickThe creation AnonymousHow to Plan A StrategySpeech of the Second Planning Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada Mao Tse-tung Planning and Flexibility- Henry MintzbergManagement and Magic - M.L.Gimpl and S.R. Dakin4. FIGURING STRATEGY Launching Strategy - Henry MintzbergPositioning the Derriere (Japanese Masters Get Closer to the Toilet Nirvana) - James BrookeThe Soft Underbelly of Hard Data - Henry MintzbergThe glory of numbersReversing the Images of the Growth Share Matrix - John Seeger5. A VISION OF STRATEGYTo see or not to seeImaging Strategy Henry Mintzberg and Frances WestleyStrategic Thinking as "Seeing" - Henry MintzbergSeeing a SymphonyThe problem with problems SmullyanMarketing Myopia - Henry MintzbergRecognizing the CEO as an Artist - Patricia PitcherReflections of An Entrepreneur - Richard BransonEntrepreneurship and Planning - A. BhideManaging quietly Henry MintzbergWhat My Mother Taught Me About Strategy - Joseph Lampel 6. INSIDE THE STRATEGIST’S HEADBiases and Limitations of Judgment: Humans - Spyros G. MakridakisBiases and Limitations of Judgment: animalsEverything I Need to Know About Strategy I Learned at the National Zoo - Jeanne LiedtkaThe Man Vs the Machine Charles KrauthammerThink Like a Grandmaster KotovThe Emperor’s New Suit - Hans Christian AndersonTurning Your Business Upside Down (Management expert Gary Hamel talks with Enron’s Ken Lay about what it’s like to launch a new strategy in the real world). - Gary Hamel  7. STRATEGY A STEP AT A TIMEGood managers Don't Make Policy Decisions H. Edward WrappBacking into a brilliant strategyWe Need More Flies Making Strategy and Fewer Bees  - Gordon SiuGrow Strategies Henry MintzbergStrategies that Learn Gary HamelStrategy up and downBook Review of Robert Burgelman's Strategy as Destiny - H. SchachterTalk the Walk - Karl WeickHow to fight strategic wars - Napolean and One from WellingtonLooking a few steps back8. STRATEGY WITH THE GLOVES OFF AND THE HALO ONChess In the Real World - Felix HoltLaws of Power - Robert Greene and Joost ElffersPlanning as Public Relations - Henry Mintzberg