One Strategy

Revealing insights into successfully making the leap from strategy to execution

One Strategy examines the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that are essential to aligning an organization around one strategy.

Learn some of the key management tools and processes the Windows 7 team put in place to manage strategy and execution. The themes in One Strategy are backed up through examples of internal blogs by Microsoft Division President Steven Sinofsky and merged with insightful context from technology and operations strategy expert Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

All about developing and executing great, innovative strategies, One Strategy reveals it is possible to build the right organizational capabilities and base of understanding, generate insightful strategies, develop detailed plans, and lead your corporate strategies to completion.

One Strategy shares hard–won insights, experiences, and lessons on:

• Aligning a highly complex organization during uncertain times
• Developing a framework for strategic integrity driven by planning, organization, and decision making
• Translating strategic potential into impact
• Building the capability, effectiveness, and trust that coaches,empowers, and inspires an organization
• Motivating your organization to strive for strategic integrity

…each drawing from methods demonstrated in practice.

• List of Blog Posts
• Chapter 1 Strategic Integrity
• Chapter 2 Strategy: A Participatory Approach
• Chapter 3 The Foundations of Strategic Integrity
• Chapter 4 Integrity and Innovation
• Chapter 5 Planning: Innovation, Risk, and Agility
• Chapter 6 Organization: Matching Capabilities to Strategy
• Chapter 7 Organization: What Managers Do
• Chapter 8 Decision Making and Value Systems
• Chapter 9 Personal and Organizational Growth
• Chapter 10 Lessons from Aligning Strategy and Execution

Let's make one thing clear: this book has nothing whatsoever to do with business strategy! It is about a senior project/program leader and his quest to make himself look like a senior executive. Add to that a admiring but questionable competent professor that according to himself didn't really know what he was researching from the beginning…

Sigh, this is the worst disappointment I have had for a long time, and it isn't helped by the fact that it is mostly commented blog-posts by Sinofsky with a number of references by Iansiti (which sometimes make you question if he really has read the referred to material). Even the blogposts are sometimes incoherent and makes wild claims that has no bearings to reality (and are not even true about the Microsoft history…)

This is as bad as it gets (and I even paid for a harcover edition!). Dump it in the nearest trash can.

You sometimes make mistakes, and buying and subsequently reading this trash was absolutely one of mine.