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.
In this collection, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters references 4 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, The Art of War and The Innovator's Dilemma.
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Rumelt explicitly borrows Kahneman and Lovallo's 'inside view' concept from Thinking, Fast and Slow in his chapter on strategic forecasting and planning biases
Draws repeatedly on Sun Tzu's Art of War as a foundational text on strategy as the deliberate concentration of strength against weakness
Engages with Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma when analyzing why well-run companies fail to respond to technological disruption in chapters on inertia and entropy
Cites Andy Grove's strategic inflection point concept from High Output Management and his Intel turnaround as an exemplar of good strategy built on honest diagnosis
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