Playing to win
by A. G. Lafley · first published 2013
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Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It's hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future -- something that doesn't happen in most companies. In this book, two well-known business thinkers get to the heart of strategy -- explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done.
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…Moore) - Zone to Win (Geoff Moore) - Only the Paranoid Survive (Andy Grove) - Blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh) - The Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton Christensen) - Good to Great (Jim Collins) - Playing to Win (A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin) - Tape Sucks (Frank Slootman) - Strategy vol. 1&2 (Harvard Business Review) Pricing - Monetizing Innovation (Georg Tacke and Madhavan Ramanujan) - Confessions of the Pricing…
on “Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?” ↗…organization stuff I thought these two books gave at times contradictory and at times very complimentary thoughts on what made teams work. In reality, neither were exactly about making teams work though :) Playing to Win http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Win-Strategy-Really-Works/dp/1... is on creating strategies Reinventing organizations http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Lal... is about holacracy…
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