The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment23 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 2000 Highly Recommended! + The Changing Strategy Landscape + The Most Important Work on Strategy + Overview, technique and implementation + If you can measure it, you can manage it             Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (11th Edition)7 reviews Fred R David Prentice Hall, 2006 A good book, but not spectacular + Good book + Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases This is a good, step-by-step book for strategic management. It lays out the steps very well, but it could use a bit more information. The financial ratios section could use more information, and the case studies are often unequal in the types of information that they carry. This makes it difficult ...             The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs4 reviews Adrian J. Slywotzky, Karl Weber Crown Business, 2007 Dimensions of "a new strategic imperative" + Slywotzky Delivers Another Winner + Upside: A Broad systematic look at risk : CEOs, Boards must read + Strategic Risk Shaping Drivers Superior Performance             The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action53 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 1996 Effective Strategic Management Tool + A Good Read but One Size does Not Fit All + Although Great, it is Better in Hindsight + Excellent + The Balanced Scorecard - translating strategy into action             The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary42 reviews Joseph Michelli McGraw-Hill, 2006 Extraordinary Success Begets Extraordinary Lessons + Caution Hot + pleasantly surprised "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." --Vernon Sanders Law. When reading the title, The Starbucks Experience, a reader could take it one of two ways: a story about the experience of Starbucks as a company, or the story of the experience that ...             Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies149 reviews Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras Collins Business, 2004 The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today + Amazing Book!! + Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant + Built to Last + A Must Read Together With Good To Great             Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases14 reviews Lynda M Applegate, Robert D. Austin, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005 Very satisfied + Corporate Informatio strategy and Management: Text and Casses The book was brand new and I recieved the order on the day promised. Price beat all other sources I checked.             The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance28 reviews Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, ... McGraw-Hill, 2000 Senior Leadership Team meeting goer + Excellent Book + A Six Sigma Primer look how great i am.....i am a member of the senior leadership team which means i just go to meetings all day and really dont do any work....i just blowhard at work all day like i am blowing hard reviewing this book             Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management35 reviews Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, ... Free Press, 2005 An excellent overview with good examples + Great overview book on strategic management + Mintzberg v. Porter, et.al. but especially Porter + Strategy review + Strategy Safari for management Student             Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process Revised3 reviews Jay R. Galbraith Jossey-Bass, 2001 excellent resource + applied the knowladge Really good intro to ideas and concepts needed to redesign an organization in terms of its structure. Best if you already have some degree of experience in do it so you can really apply the concepts.             The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World46 reviews Peter Schwartz Currency Doubleday, 1996 A Good Value (If you buy it used) + Want to change your thinking? + Good guide to scenario-building This book has two problems. One. It was originally written in 1989-1990. Sometimes the author mentions something like, "We might attack Iraq because of its aggression towards Kuwait." Then you realize that you are taking your strategy cues from something almost 20 years old. Two. The theory ...             The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the ...48 reviews Ethan M. Rasiel, Ph.D., Paul N. Friga McGraw-Hill, 2001 Loved Mckinsey way...not nearly as Impressed with this... After reading McKinsey way, I immediately went out and bought this book. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of good stuff in here, but I was just not impressed. I think I will reread it, and see if I can draw more from it, but the chapters were not interesting in the first read through. No ...             The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm71 reviews Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, ... Doubleday Business, 2001 Watching 'The Medici Effect' at work in IDEO! + Reinforces the Culture of Innovation + Kudos to Ideos + Innovation for All             Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots13 reviews Chris Zook Harvard Business School Press, 2004 Not All Adjacencies Are Appropriate + An insightful, data-based treatise on why profitable growth seldom strays far from the core business + Practical and Insightful + An Outstanding Growth Guide for Global Business Leaders             Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies7 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Their most important book thus far.... + Excellent + Beyond strategy: the process of alignment + Book review             Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth31 reviews David G. Thomson Wiley, 2005 As an Executive Who Has Been There + Benefit centric innovation delivers exponential growth! + Very Good Book! + Blueprint to a Billion             Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm29 reviews Verne Harnish Select Books (NY), 2002 Most important book around for going from $1million to $50million + Yes...Read and Learn + Quick read -- good for fundamentals + Best business book I have ever read...period.             The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels77 reviews Michael Watkins Harvard Business School Press, 2003 Great Primer for Taking On a Management Job + Well Written + Good Overview and Framework + Indispensable reference book             Strategic Planning For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))9 reviews Erica Olsen For Dummies, 2006 Smart and actionable + Get it, Read It, Read it again in a few months + A great read! + A fast reference             Profit From the Core : Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence27 reviews Chris Zook, James Allen Harvard Business School Press, 2001 Compelling guide to management + Define your core business clearly + Very Realistic and very useful + Dell has applied this book idea very well