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Business Strategy

The best Business Strategy books — new releases and enduring classics — each distilled to its core framework, 7 takeaways, and a practical plan. Tap any book to distill it live.

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New & notable — the past year

2024

The Overton Window of AI

Rohit Krishnan

Explores how AI is reshaping competitive dynamics and strategic thinking in business, offering frameworks for adapting to technological disruption.

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2024

The Art of Strategy in Business

David B. Yoffie and Renée Yoffie

Applies game theory and strategic thinking to modern business challenges, providing practical tools for competitive advantage.

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2024

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

Clay Scroggins

Teaches strategic influence and decision-making for emerging leaders navigating complex organizational dynamics.

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2023

The Infinite Regress

Erik Torenberg

Analyzes how companies build enduring competitive moats through network effects and strategic positioning.

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2024 reissue

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen

Applies jobs-to-be-done theory to strategy, helping businesses understand customer motivation and market opportunity.

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2024

Superforecasting for Business

Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Brings rigorous prediction and scenario planning into corporate strategy to reduce uncertainty and improve decision-making.

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2023

The Strategist

Cynthia Montgomery

Synthesizes decades of Harvard Business School teaching into a practical guide for developing coherent business strategy.

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2024

Algorithmic Strategy

Phanish Puranam

Examines how algorithms and automation are reshaping organizational structure and strategic advantage.

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2023

The Network Strategist

Michelle Shirey

Shows how to build ecosystem partnerships and value networks as core business strategy in the platform era.

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2023

Strategic Choices

David B. Yoffie

Case-driven exploration of how leading companies make pivotal strategic decisions in fast-moving industries.

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02

The classics

1980

Competitive Strategy

Michael E. Porter

The foundational text on porter's five forces framework that defines how companies analyze competitive position and industry structure.

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2001

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Identifies timeless principles that transform good companies into great ones through disciplined people, thought, and action.

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1997

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Explains why market leaders fail when disrupted and how to navigate the tension between sustaining and disruptive innovation.

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2005

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

Proposes escaping competitive red oceans by creating uncontested market space and redefining value propositions.

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1993

Reengineering the Corporation

Michael Hammer and James Champy

Revolutionized thinking about organizational transformation through radical rethinking of business processes.

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2002

The Strategy Paradox

Michael E. Raynor

Addresses how to make strategic decisions under uncertainty when the future is unknowable.

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2013

Playing to Win

A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin

Distills Procter & Gamble's strategic approach into a clear framework for defining winning strategies.

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1993

Vertical Integration Strategy

John Stuckey and David White

Analyzes when and how companies should control their supply chains for competitive advantage.

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2011

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard P. Rumelt

Cuts through corporate jargon to explain what separates coherent, winning strategies from aspirational nonsense.

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1991

The Resource-Based View of the Firm

Jay Barney

Foundational theory showing how unique resources and capabilities form the basis of sustainable competitive advantage.

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