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Crafting Strategy
by Henry Mintzberg
from Harvard Business Review

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• Crafting Strategy
  In "Crafting Strategy", Mintzberg wrote an incisive article on his views on strategy. He methodically explores the traditional way people view strategy as something planned by the strategist (could be CEO or Strategic Planning department) to be implemented by others. He, however, explains that managers' feel for the way the organization should be going can result in a series of decisions from which a strategy can emerge. In other words, strategies are not just a plan for the future that are deliberate but... more info

• This is the Real World. Practical. Thoughtful. Energizing.
  This article is a cornerstone of my thinking and consulting about strategy. It takes it from the head to the hands. His analogy of strategy like a potter at a potters wheel is breathtaking in the way it carries his real world insight to usable help for any business or organization.
  Tom Brown
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• Handcrafting strategy instead of strategic planning
  Henry Mintzberg is Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also Professor of Organization at ISEAD, the famous French business school. I would like to issue a word of warning to people who are not familiar with Henry Mintzberg, he is unlike any other business school professor. He likes to provoke and uses untraditional examples. For instance, in this article he compares the traditional strategic planning process with a single craftsman, a potter (I believe his... more info

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