Best Books on Business Strategy?
Had Porter's Competitive Strategy and Kim's Blue Ocean Strategy recommended to me recently, and was wondering whether there were others that you guys could recommend. Thanks!
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I personally love reading HBS’s case studies. I gained thoroughgoing insight in many different areas of business and strategy.
You can buy a bundle of them at hbr.org.
This right here is the best. I feel like HBS's case studies are so underrated. I spent an entire internship spending 30 minutes just reading various articles and deep dives into strategy.
I read Strategy by Lawrence Freedman (sp) before starting in consulting and got a lot out of it.
“The Lords of Strategy” by Walter Keichel III
Its not 100% devoted to strategy, but rather the history behind strategy in a corporate/business setting.
It talks about how the MBBs got started, Michael Porter, etc. It’s more a history book than anything else, but I’m liking it.
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart
highly recommend both.
House of Lies is probably the most accurate :)
The McKinsey Way isn't a true strategy book, but it is a good primer on what you'll actually be doing day to day and how to go about it.
Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
This book is great! Great recommendation!
I personally learnt a lot with Good to Great from Jim Collins, on professional and personal side tho it's not specifically only strategy
7 Powers: The foundations of Business Strategy (Hamilton Helmer)
- Talks about business strategy from an investment perspective. Extremely informative.
I'd also recommend the newsletter Stratechery (Ben Thompson) if you're interested in tech strategy or The Diff (Byrne Hobart) on Substack, for more of a generalist take. There are a lot of great newsletters out there that in some ways are better than books.
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