Mentions: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Rumelt’s book is like a luxorious chocolate brownie: dense, deeply flavourful and hard to put down.
Key topics are how to identify bad strategies, and the essential parts (or kernel) of a good strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy and a set of coherent actions.
It dives deep into all of these, with plenty of case studies providing for an enriching and brain wrinkling experience.
Easily one of the best non-fiction books I’ve read. I’ll be coming back to it.