Looking for the best Strategy books? Browse our list to find excellent book recommendations on the subject.
- Strategy: A History (2015)
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life (2010)
- HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Strategy (2011)
- Crafting & Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases (2019)
- Advertising Campaign Strategy (text only) 4th (Fourth) edition by D.Parente (2005)
- Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice (2012)
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017)
- On Grand Strategy (2019)
- Competitive Strategy. Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. (1980)
- Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (1986)
Strategy: A History (2015)
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life (2010)
“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”―Steven Levitt Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Strategy (2011)
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles ( ).
Crafting & Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases (2019)
ISBN: 9781260565744 is an International Student Edition of Crafting & Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases 22nd Edition by Arthur A. Thompson Jr, Margaret Peteraf, John E Gamble and A. J. Strickland III This ISBN 9781260565744 is Textbook only. It will not come with online access code.
Advertising Campaign Strategy (text only) 4th (Fourth) edition by D.Parente (2005)
Advertising Campaign Strategy: A Guide to Marketing Communication Plans [Paperback]Donald Parente (Author)
Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice (2012)
‘I have used this book in all its editions since first publication with my undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is a core text for all the students, because it provides the detail they require at an academic level. Importantly it is a book for the practitioner to use too. This is why we use it on our postgraduate practitioner programmes where we actually buy the book for the students as we believe it is that important.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017)
Inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns.
On Grand Strategy (2019)
For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the “Studies in Grand Strategy” seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its purpose has been to prepare future leaders for responsibilities they will face, through lessons drawn from history and the classics.
Competitive Strategy. Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. (1980)
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (1986)
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present.
Best Strategy Books You Should Read
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Author(s): Nigel Slack; Michael Lewis, (zarzaГЊВЁdzanie)
ID: 914298, Publisher: Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, Year: cop. 2011, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
10 Weeks To Rapid Fat Loss: The Most Effective Strategy for Losing Fat Quickly
Author(s): Jack D Coulson
ID: 2403951, Publisher: Independently published, Year: 9 May 2019, Size: 359 Kb, Format: pdf
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
Author(s): Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson
ID: 2393012, Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, Year: 8 Aug 2006, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really hot items according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.