Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Mangament [Paperback]

Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.

No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication ofStrategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool—it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide.

Strategy Safarimakes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades.

Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth,Strategy Safarimaps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation.Henry Mintzberg is the author of several seminal books, includingThe Nature of Managerial Work,The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, andManagers Not MBAs. He is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University.

Joseph Lampel is Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School, at City University London. He is the co-editor of the fourth edition ofThe Strategy Processand of The Business of Culture: Strategic Perspectives in Media and Entertainment.

Bruce Ahlstrand is a Professor at Trent University in Ontario.Chapter One: AND OVER HERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT BEAST

THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT

by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)

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