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book2011

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Disciplines:
strategy
management
rumelt

Summary

Richard Rumelt's 2011 argument that most corporate strategy is 'bad strategy' (aspirational fluff, goals mistaken for strategy) and that 'good strategy' always has three elements: a diagnosis of the challenge, a guiding policy, and coherent actions.

Core Contribution

Provides the clearest account of what strategy actually means — Rumelt's kernel framework (diagnosis + guiding policy + coherent actions) is the most operationally useful strategy framework available, directly applicable to organizations of any size.

Historical Influences

Richard Rumelt

Intellectual Lineage

Richard Rumelt Crown Business

Allied Works

Playing to Win The Crux

Contemporaries & Peers

Playing to Win Competitive Strategy

Minds Influenced

Strategy practice Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Good Strategy Bad Strategy Kernel of strategy

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