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| Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management | 
 enlarge | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, Bruce Ahlstrand
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (36 reviews)
Sales Rank: 37333
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743270576
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4012
EAN: 9780743270571
ASIN: 0743270576
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
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Product Description
Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool -- it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide. Strategy Safari makes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades. Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth, Strategy Safari maps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Brilliant book on strategic management perspectives November 7, 2008
Mintzerbg's sharpness and power of synthesis brilliantly summarizes the most divergent views in the strategic management field. The book sheds light on the different assumptions, strengths and weaknesses of each school, allowing the reader to appreciate the overall complexity of the subject and the contribution of each school to the understanding of the topic.
The book is written in a clear and straightforward style. The 'safari' metaphor, representing our journey into the field while the different 'animals' represent the different schools, is well articulated, illustrative and humorous, which makes the reading very easy.
Each statement or conclusion is well referenced and the reference literature is impressive. This book is a clear testimony that academic rigour on one side and the use of methaphors, sketches and even some humor on the other are perfectly compatible.
 Great overview book on strategic management September 15, 2008
Book is required for a course I'm taking. It is a very easy ready and provides a fantastic overview of the many thoughts w/r to strategic management. The authors break the field into ten distinct "schools" which provides a nice way to compare and contrast the plethora of concepts coming out of academia over the years.
Mintzberg v. Porter, et.al. but especially Porter December 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For a summary of the book, I'd recommend Mr. Gerard Kroese's review elsewhere on this page. It is fair and accurate. What I find most entertaining about this work is the authors' (Mintzberg's mostly) masterful deconstruction of Professor Porter's positioning models. Mintzberg has spent the past 25 years railing against them, seeing them as altogether static sieves through which reality is filtered. An effective strategy, Mintzberg argued in "Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning" is one that interacts with and engages its environment. I'd put myself in the "environmental school" as Mintzberg characterizes that perspective in this book.
Most of all, this book is well-written, as is most of Mintzberg's work, and is filled with such whimsy as a serious book strategic management can muster.
Strategy review February 17, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The ease of doing business and the product is excellent. I am very happy and will certainly order again.
Strategy Safari for management Student February 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Actually, the book quite different what I expected. It shows different ways for current managers, or future managers about history of strategy, even about your life.
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