HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

  • 9h 17m 52s
  • Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
  • Gildan Media
  • 2022

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: distinguish your company from rivals; clarify what your company will and won't do; craft a vision for an uncertain future; create blue oceans of uncontested market space; use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy; capture your strategy in a memorable phrase; make priorities explicit; allocate resources early; and clarify decision rights for faster decision making.

This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company's Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

In this Audiobook

  • Chapter 1 - What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter
  • Chapter 2 - The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter
  • Chapter 3 - Building Your Company's Vision by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
  • Chapter 4 - Reinventing Your Business Model by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann
  • Chapter 5 - Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
  • Chapter 6 - The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers
  • Chapter 7 - Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
  • Chapter 8 - Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action by Orit Gadiesh and James L. Gilbert
  • Chapter 9 - Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance by Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele
  • Chapter 10 - Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance by Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko

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