- Paperback: 406 pages
- Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall; 1 edition (1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0273656368
- ISBN-13: 978-0273656364
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 271,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Mintzberg is one of the best guides for an analysis of strategy and this book is the perfect starting point for someone interested in understanding more about it." - Director Magazine, January 2009 (readership 173,000)
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"Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys." The Observer
"My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg." Tom Peters
The word strategy has been around for a long time. It is considered to be the high point of managerial activity, and managers use the word both freely and fondly. But what does the word really mean? Strategy Safari sets out to provide an answer. In this colourful primer, Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel draw together diverse strands of strategic thought into ten distinct schools. In a final chapter they seek to blend the schools together; pointing out however that a truly unified theory may not be possible or desirable. The result is a thoughtful and readable guide to the wilds of strategic management. Stratefy Safari can be read by anyone with an interest in business strategy but it is especially useful to those managers, scholars and students who must reconcile academic theory with the everyday reality of modern corporate practice. "Like butchers, the academics and consultants chop up reality for their own convenience...managers can allow themselves no such luxuries. They can use it only if it remains intact as a living being."
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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When senior managers and executives discuss strategy, the results are often unhelpful or unenlightening. This is bad enough in a single company, but in a merger or formal partnership it can quickly result in energy sapping discussions which lead nowhere.
One of the main reasons is that there are so many deeply held views of what strategy is.
If you are a senior manager and have ever faced such a situation, then this book should be at the top of your list.
Authoritative but entertaining, it overviews and critiques the ten schools of strategic thinking which are common in the business world today. Read once through quickly, it will open your eyes to the key thoughts and terminology which characterise each school - in turn explaining why otherwise flexible colleagues can become intransigent over the meaning of a single word.
A more careful rereading will enable you to gain an overview of how different kinds of strategy relate to each other, when one school is preferable to another, and the pitfalls of following any one school slavishly.
At a further level, this book carefully refers by page number to the key texts in each of the schools. It therefore becomes an extended bibliographic study guide to a much deeper immersion in underlying theory.
Mintzberg and his co-authors have worked very hard to keep this text lucid and relatively short. It is nonetheless detailed and rewarding. If you are not sure about this book, there is a summary paper in the FT's Mastering Strategy, which should help to make up your mind.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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If like me you are doing your MBA, this is one of two essential books (the other being the book of MBA models.) This is a potted history of strategic thinking, not sufficient on its own to develop your dissertation according to one school of thought, but an excellent starter for ten and a superb context in which to place the evolution of corporate strategy.
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I admit that I started reading this as a fan of Mintzberg's easy to read and sometimes funny style. As a business school student, the schools of strategy were not hanging together for me. One text would present a number of broad schools, another would sub-divide them, and of course they would both call some of them by different names. This book starts by introducing the different schools and how they came about, then discusses each in turn, then (hallelujah!) provides a really clear table at the back of the book showing how they differ. It has made my studies easier, though I admit to bias and being a fan to start with.
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Not as good as expected
I bought this books as I had read Henry Mintzberg's book Managers not MBAs" and liked his style a lot. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ravikumar Cherubala
Mintzberg 10 schools of strategic thought
If you haven't a clue about Mintzberg's 10 schools of strategic thought, then this is the book for you. Each one is covered chapter by chapter.
Published 17 months ago by queenb69
Strategy Safari!!! It'sfor my leadership degree!!!
It's a good book....I guess!!! I needed it for my degree.... and hopefully it will lead me on to better things!!!!
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by Mrs. Angela M. Geraghty
stupendous safari
really excellent book for outlining the ten schools and theory, in a simple and easy to understand manner. love it!
Published on 4 May 2009 by S. Hannity
One of the finest books on strategic thinking and models
This book should be essential reading for anybody involved in strategy. It clearly breaks out ten diffent models of how strategy is thought about and managed. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2008 by Philip Jones
“Lions and tigers and bears....Oh my!”
Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel are knowledgeable and congenial tour guides for those who have not as yet explored “the wilds of strategic management. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2006 by Robert Morris
A stimulating intro to 10 different strategic approaches
The most valuable characteristic of this book is the concise but nevertheless stimulating way it describes and compares 10 overly different strategic approaches. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2005 by Fabio Moioli
Invaluable Guide to Employing Strategic Management Themes
This is the most valuable book ever written on strategic management. Be sure to read and apply its lessons well! Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Ambitious overview on Corporate Strategy
Mintzberg is one of the pioneers of corporate strategy and has a pragmatic view on the subject. Having devoted a couple of decades on researching the subject, few persons could be... Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2003 by Erwin Kuntze
Start your strategy safari with this book!
When I bought a copy of Strategy Safari, I had been studying strategic management at the university for almost a year. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2002 by kate_markova@yahoo.co.uk
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