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Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management (Financial Times Series) (Paperback)

by Henry Mintzberg (Author), Prof Bruce Ahlstrand (Author), Joseph B. Lampel (Author)

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall (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 (16 customer reviews)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The essential guide to senior management's biggest challenge, 25 Feb 2003

By	Martin Turner "Martin Turner" (Marlcliff, Warwickshire, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strategic schools summed up in one easy, slim volume, 22 April 2002

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars MBA in a volume, 9 Aug 2002

By	Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

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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3.0 out of 5 stars 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 3 months ago by Mrs. Angela M. Geraghty

5.0 out of 5 stars stupendous safari
really excellent book for outlining the ten schools and theory, in a simple and easy to understand manner. love it!

Published 6 months ago by S. Hannity

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 17 months ago by Philip Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars “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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 Professor Donald Mitchell

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars Out-of-the box-strategy ...one size does NOT fit all !!!
This is possibly the best strategy book I have ever read. If you think the only way to develop business strategy is to get loads of data, put it into matrices and analyse it, yet... Read more

Published on 3 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended to MBA students.
Loadsa theory. Well written, concise, objective, and additionally gives a critique of each school of strategic thought. Read more

Published on 10 Jul 2001

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