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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
List Price: $17.00
Buy New: $7.57
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 55924
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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| Customer Reviews:
 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.
 An excellent overview with good examples November 5, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm currently doing an MBA thesis on various types of strategy and this book helped a great deal. It's well written, easy to read, and covers all aspects of strategic thinking and the various strategy schools. If you want a general overview of all common strategic thinking, this is the book for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Fiber and spice September 28, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a business coach, I read over 50 new business books a year and over the decades only a few have ventured onto my "read annually" list. Strategic Safari has there for more years than I can remember. Each revisit is about gleaning new stuff and a "conversation" to take the gauge of my thinking; this book always delights me on both counts. AND! the writing is more than digestible, it's delectable . . . an unusual feature of this genre that I can't applaud enough.
multi-paradigm July 18, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm astonished why this book's sales rank is very low. It should be read by more people in United States.br /br /I'm Indonesian and knew this book of an advanced accounting class in my last year in graduate program. Although Indonesia has not much very large corporation like those in United States, this book is still relevant because of multi-facet thinking the authors offer. Entrepreneurial school, for example, is best for guiding or at least describing how small business strategy formed; and small businesses are the very foundation of Indonesia economy.br /br /Entrepreneurial school is only one of ten frameworks Mintzberg et al. offer to comprehend business strategy. This multi paradigm is very relieving since there's so many business solutions prescribed without clear assumptions (or premises)they lay on. br /
"Lions and tigers and bears....Oh my!" February 25, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
br /Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel are knowledgeable and congenial tour guides for those who have not as yet explored "the wilds of strategic management." Such expert assistance is especially valuable, given the the fact that -- the last time I checked -- Amazon and its online partner Borders sell more than 53,000 different books on the general subject of strategy. Oh my! Following an apt quotation from A.A. Milne's introduction to Winnie-the-Pooh, the authors dedicate their book to those "who are more interested in open fields than closed cages." They carefully organize their material within 12 chapters which begin with "And Over Here, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Strategic Management Beast" and conclude with "Hang On, Ladies and Gentlemen, You Have Yet to Meet the Whole Beast." The focus of the authors' lively as well as enlightening narrative is on ten different "schools" of strategy formation: br /br /Three are Prescriptive:br /br /Design as a process of conception br /Planning as a formal processbr /Positioning as an analytical process br /br /Six are Descriptive:br /br /Entrepreneurial as a visionary process br /Cognitive as a mental process br /Learning as an emergent process br /Power as a process of negotiation br /Cultural as a collective process br /Environmental as a reactive process br /br /With regard to the last school, "We call it configuration. People in this school are seeking to be integrative, cluster the various elements of our beast -- the strategy-making process, the content of strategies, organizational structures and their contexts -- into distinct stages or episodes, for example, of entrepreneurial growth or stable maturity, sometimes sequenced over time to describe the life cycles of organizations." The authors devote a separate chapter to each of these ten "schools" and it remains for each reader to determine which school offers the most relevant guidance to the formulation of an appropriate strategy. The authors acknowledge that it can be argued that the last school, one which views strategy formation as a process of transformation, "really combines the others." Read the book and then decide for yourself.
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