Strategy professor and author
Richard Rumelt is an American emeritus professor of strategy at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a founding member of the Strategic Management Society. His bestselling book Good Strategy Bad Strategy is widely regarded as one of the most important works on strategic thinking, arguing that effective strategy requires a clear diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.
by Richard Rumelt
Rumelt argues that most corporate strategy is actually bad strategy masquerading as vision, goals, and fluff, and that good strategy has a specific logical structure he calls the kernel: diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent action. He draws on military history, business turnarounds, and decision science to show how insight into the crux of a situation beats template-driven planning.
The books Richard Rumelt references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu's ancient treatise frames strategy as the art of winning without fighting when possible. The deepest victories come from superior positioning, deception, and understanding your opponent's weaknesses before engageing.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
Who Richard draws from, and who draws from Richard — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.