Book review – Strategy Bites Back by Henry Mintzberg

Cover of Strategy Bites Back by Henry Mintzberg Mintzberg's 5Ps

Strategy Bites Back: It Is A Lot More, And Less, Than You Ever Imagined by Henry Mintzberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this as pre-reading before studying Strategy with the Open University. It was very clear and Continue reading Book review – Strategy Bites Back by Henry Mintzberg

Book Review – Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

If you have to read about strategy this is a very good place to start your understanding of strategy. I’ve got several years of experience in government doing strategy and I’ve studied it academically as well. So I’m applying a Continue reading Book Review – Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Book Review – To Reason Why, by Denis Forman

This is more than just an infantry officer’s memoir. Denis Forman was closely involved in the Battle School movement that transformed the British Army’s infantry training during the second world war. He then went on to serve alongside Lionel Wigram Continue reading Book Review – To Reason Why, by Denis Forman

The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

subtitle: The Impact of the Highly Improbable I heard the author on Radio 4 and was intrigued with his central premise that there are wholly unpredictable random events which throw a spaner in the works and about how we often infer things Continue reading The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb