Strategy Safari
Summary:
The book presents a comprehensive overview of the ten dominant schools of strategic management, explaining their concepts, processes, and limitations. It serves as a guide through the complex terrain of corporate strategy, offering critiques and comparisons to help managers, academics, and students understand the diverse approaches to strategic thinking.
Key points:
1. Ten Schools of Thought: Mintzberg and colleagues divide strategy approaches into ten schools, categorized as prescriptive, descriptive, and configurative. Prescriptive schools are the Design, Planning, and Positioning Schools. Descriptive schools include the Entrepreneurial, Cognitive, Learning, Power, Cultural, and Environmental Schools. The configurative school is the Configuration School, which combines elements from others and focuses on strategy evolution.
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