Competing for the Future ^{2nd Ed.}

With a new preface by the Authors

With Competing for the Future, managers have seen how they can reshape their industries. Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad offers a masterful blueprint for what your company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership is to develop an independent point of view about tomorrow's opportunties and build capabilities that exploit them, Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic — and successful.

• Chapter 1: Getting of the Treadmill
• Chapter 2: How Competition for the Future Is Different
• Chapter 3: Learning to Forget
• Chapter 4: Competing for Industry Foresight
• Chapter 5: Crafting Strategic Architecture
• Chapter 6: Strategy as Stretch
• Chapter 7: Strategy as Leverage
• Chapter 8: Competing to Shape the Future
• Chapter 9: Building Gateways to the Future
• Chapter 10: Embedding the Core  Competence Perspective
• Chapter 11: Securing the Future
• Chapter 12: Thinking Differently

Food for your thoughts.

An extremely influential book, even though it manages to be extremely verbose in just over 300 pages. And to try to find their core concept (pun intended), takes some reading…