In Fast Competition and Flat Denial, Phil Rosenzweig attacks the bulk of strategy books published each year: few of them are fundamentally persuasive or insightful. Most are long on admonition and ...

“The heart of Black’s book is his discussions of strategy in the context of the contests for power among states and empires from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars . . . to the Cold War and ...

This year’s best business books on strategy are notable primarily for what they’re not. They’re not one more treatment of global strategy, with particular attention to the BRIC countries (Brazil, ...

The 1993 HBR article ‘Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines’ argued that every company had to become champions of one of three value disciplines — operational excellence, customer intimacy, or ...

For readers who enjoy the thrill of games of chance and skill, strategy books can offer a significant edge. Whether you’re navigating the complexities of blackjack, analysing poker tells, or just ...

In an elegantly written and deeply thoughtful book, Gary Pisano tilts against the conventional wisdom that scale is an impediment to innovation. “Big does not always mean ugly,” he writes. And ...