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Alexander The Great's Art Of Strategy: Lessons From the Great Empire Builder (Paperback)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Profile Business; New edition edition (8 April 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1861974779
ISBN-13: 978-1861974778
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm

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'If you want to know about the greatest ever war leader's strategy, this is a fine place to start, and as a management book it is good fun.' Business Life 'learned and entertaining' Wall Street Journal 'Everyone's talking about a sensational young guy whose strategic thinking and leadership qualities made him the most powerful chief executive in the world before he was 30 - and there is a new book out that tells you not only how he did it, but how you can copy his methods. ...Partha Bose's Alexander The Great's Art of Strategy, currently high on the British and American non-fiction bestseller charts...It is selling in sizeable quantities to intelligent people doing important jobs in large companies.' The Times

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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost a classic, 11 May 2003

By	A. Browne "Caballo" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: Lessons from the Great Empire Builder (Hardcover)

A great idea for a book, well written, and showing an extraordinarily broad grasp of history and business. You cannot but help warm to a business writer who uses cricketing analogies of googlies and leg-spin!
What prevents the book from being a real classic are some factual mistakes- for example Alexander's cavalry Companions are described as having scale armour or armour plate, a shield (only used by Companions when on foot), a Celtic sword, and horses with a breastplate. None of this is accurate based on the sources. Even more worrying, the elite Theban Sacred Band are referred to a cavalry unit- when they were actually a hoplite infantry unit. Worrying because if these facts are incorrect, what else is wrong?
I liked his use of Porter's latest view of strategy being about "combining acivities" and the South West Airline example Porter uses so graphically in lectures. An interesting parallel could have been Alexander's combined operations strike against the Scythians where a river crossing was successfully accomplished using boatmen, covering fire from bolt-shooters, and Macedonian infantry acting in unison.
Overall, this could have been a classic- but to my mind, it just misses. But well worth a read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top Drawer!, 15 Aug 2005

By	Alan Evans "Big Al" (Horley, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is a superb introduction to Alexander the Great and his legacy. The book paints a clear picture to demonstrate how business strategies of today can be linked to Alexander's time and methods. Partha skips back and forth throughout history when telling this story; first giving you a chunk of Alexander's story and then a story from todays business or politics in order to draw links between the strategies used today and those used by Alexander back then. I found this book thoroughly engaging and found the authors style 'easy' as the leg work has apparently been done for you (see the massive reference list at the back of the book!)and just enough information is included for you to get the point. It never gets boring. Top Drawer!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with Knowledge!, 29 April 2003

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: Lessons from the Great Empire Builder (Hardcover)

Partha Bose has crafted an impressive volume that stands equally well as a work of interpretive history or as a contemporary guide to effective business strategy. Like any lessons-of-history-applied-to-business volume, it works to find a delicate balance between past and present. Its practical business examples range from Honda to IBM to the war in Afghanistan (a land which Alexander was the last to conquer successfully). Fortunately, Bose avoids the temptation to give the facts of history short shrift. Do not expect to find an answer about whether to do that big acquisition deal. (You'll never establish your own business empire if you get too caught up in the details!) Instead, this volume brings to life the classic lessons of leadership that march across the eons, unstoppable, unchanging, unchallenged, like the Macedonian legion itself. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book to executives, strategists, history buffs and all those who harbor a secret desire to rule the world!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Packed With Knowledge!
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Published on 15 Jun 2004 by Rolf Dobelli

5.0 out of 5 stars a rare combination - business sense and a great read!
I'm usually pretty sceptical about this kind of book but a friend persuaded me to read it. It breaks down some of the basic strategic elements of running a business (or starting... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars LEARN FROM HISTORY
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5.0 out of 5 stars Strategy 101 but also a great read!
Business books... most of them send me to sleep. Military history's never been my bag either. But this book is something really special. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars From insight to action.
At last! A book on leadership and strategy that translates the techniques of one of the world's greatest heroes into a practical and learnable agenda for the aspiring yet mortal... Read more

Published on 25 April 2003

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Published on 10 April 2003 by Rolf Dobelli

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