The philosophy at the heart of Bob de Wit's landmark text Strategy is that an understanding of the topic can only be gained by exposure to the many opposite perspectives in the field. Recognizing that there is no simple answer to the question of 'what is strategy', the author navigates readers through contrasting viewpoint readings to encourage discussion and debate..
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Conventional strategic management education is dominated by a standard formula that uses a misleadingly simplistic step-by-step approach, presents few competing perspectives, glosses over key debates, and is typically biased towards a particular national or regional context. De Wit and Meyer's best-selling Strategy takes a strikingly different approach that has helped thousands of students and professionals around the world develop into critical and creative strategic thinkers. By carefully guiding students through diverse perspectives, De Wit and Meyer show how, more than ever, robust strategy requires an open understanding of different ways of looking at strategic issues.
This is a streamlined version of De Wit and Meyer's successful text, Strategy: process, content, context. It contains a range of key articles with text contextualising the debates around key issues, allowing a wider range of views to be explored within each debate. Each Chapter includes a short case with introductory editorial text
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De Wit and Meyer's Strategy Synthesis actively challenges the educational orthodoxy to encourage students and managers to be critical, and to challenge them to be analytical, in order to facilitate creativity and unconventional thinking.
Bob De Wit and Ron Meyer's innovative and extremely successful strategy text encourages critical and creative strategic thinking. By introducing articles from key strategists to present differing perspectives on each strategic issue covered, the authors stress and contrast the diversity of views in the subject without endorsing any one approach
Bob De Wit and Ron Meyer's innovative and extremely successful strategy text encourages critical and creative strategic thinking. By introducing articles from key strategists to present differing perspectives on each strategic issue covered, the authors stress and contrast the diversity of views in the subject without endorsing any one approach.