The lords of strategy : the secret intellectual history of the new corporate world /
Walter Kiechel III.
- Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- xiv, 347 p. ; 24 cm.
Strategy as a case to be cracked ; Bruce Henderson defines the subject ; The experience curve delivers a shock ; Loading the matrix ; What Bill Bain wanted ; Waking up McKinsey ; Michael Porter encounters the surreal ; The human stain ; The paradigm that failed? ; Struggling to make something actually happen ; Breaking the world into finer pieces ; The wizards of finance reveal strategy's true purpose ; How competencies came to be core ; The revolution conquers the world ; Three versions of strategy as people ; And where was strategy when the global financial system collapsed?.