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A thoughtful review
- This Is Strategy book offers corporate strategic planners a unique opportunity to think differently by providing deep content that confronts long-term planning issues.
- The book's first chapter is titled "Strategy is a Philosophy of Becoming." It defines "Becoming" as who we will become, who we will service, and who we will help others to become.
- The book's structure is unique and differentiates from other books on the topic. It sets up each of the 297 chapters as a discrete thought provoker, more like a book of daily meditations that builds on itself uniquely for each reader.
- The author implies that if you buy into the notion of strategy as "Becoming," then this translates into certain aspirations, limits, and obligations that are inescapable.
- The book focuses on four threads: systems, empathy, games, and time. Comprehension of how these threads work separately and together is crucial to the mastery of strategic planning.
- The book provides practical examples to make strategists adept at language and comprehension, nudging their thinking, giving them a starting point to put vague ideas into words for their strategic planning.
- The book helps corporate strategic planners to move beyond short-term, emergency-driven thinking, to engage in strategic thinking by offering a philosophy, some language, and a little bit of help.
- The book is not indoctrination but a catalyst for professional growth, where each chapter builds on itself depending on the reader's thinking and stimulates them to assess deeper reasons why some companies lose their way in pursuit of long-term planning objectives.
- The book's deep content needs more engagement compared to the many how-to book options available for strategic planners who go superficially into the short-term emergency driven thinking of strategy.
- Therefore, various aspects of the book might seem vague, familiar, or even heretical, but it's essential to understand that if you buy into the book's philosophy, you will become a strategist who is adept in language and comprehension to hit long-term planning objectives effectively.
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