Resources for strategic planning teams.
Guides, frameworks, and books for the people who run strategy.
Essential reading
The books behind the frameworks. Recommended for leadership teams serious about strategy.
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Richard Rumelt
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The definitive guide to what separates genuine strategy from the fluff that passes for it.
View on Amazon ↗Michael E. Porter
Competitive Strategy
The foundational text that defined how to analyze competitive forces and choose a strategic position in any industry.
View on Amazon ↗Roger Martin & A.G. Lafley
Playing to Win
A practical framework for making the choices that define a winning strategy.
View on Amazon ↗Robert Kaplan & David Norton
The Balanced Scorecard
The landmark framework for translating strategy into measurable objectives across financial, customer, process, and learning dimensions.
View on Amazon ↗Tim Calkins
Breakthrough Marketing Plans
How to build marketing plans that connect goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics into a coherent, executable whole.
View on Amazon ↗John Doerr
Measure What Matters
How OKRs help organizations set and execute goals that drive outsized results.
View on Amazon ↗McChesney, Covey & Huling
The Four Disciplines of Execution
A proven system for turning strategy into consistent, measurable results.
View on Amazon ↗Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
Execution
Why most strategies fail in execution, and the discipline required to make them stick.
View on Amazon ↗John P. Kotter
Leading Change
The most referenced playbook for driving organizational change — how leaders build the urgency, coalition, and discipline to execute transformation.
View on Amazon ↗Rich Horwath
Deep Dive
A structured approach to strategic thinking that helps leaders move from reactive planning to deliberate, focused strategy.
View on Amazon ↗Stephen Bungay
The Art of Action
How leaders close the gap between plans, actions, and results in complex organizations.
View on Amazon ↗Andrew Grove
High Output Management
Andy Grove's enduring guide to management leverage — how leaders multiply their impact through people, process, and focused output.
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