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The Lords of Strategy
By Walter Kiechel III







In an excerpt from his new book, The Lords of Strategy, Walter Kiechel III writes about an industry that largely resisted strategy consulting, Detroit's Big Three automakers.

By Walter Kiechel III

(BusinessWeek) - A fair-minded observer might reasonably conclude that while strategy and its champions may not have been a main causal factor in bringing on the global financial crisis, they did not do much to avert it, either. Looking more widely across the burned-over economic landscape of 2008 and 2009, a disappointed student of the revolution could even be tempted to entertain notions along the lines of, "What good was strategy, anyway? A plague on the original lords, their successors in consulting and management, and all that they have wrought." .....Read Entire Excerpt Here

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