Books like Competing for the future by Gary Hamel

The Lean Startup presents a systematic, scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in uncertain environments, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative product development.

A groundbreaking study by Jim Collins on how good companies become truly great, revealing the key leadership traits, cultural mindset, and technological accelerators that make the difference between mediocre and exceptional performance.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

Reinventing Organizations explores how companies and institutions can evolve toward more sustainable, soulful, and purposeful ways of operating.

ISBN: 9780029253601

Columbia Business School professor Greenwald offers a new theory of competition for strategic planners to apply in the real world. He argues that there is only one essential factor in determining competitive advantages: how easy it is for competitors to enter or expand in a given market. If a company can erect strong barriers to entry--through customer captivity, lower production costs, or economies of scale--it can manage these advantages, anticipate competitors' moves, or achieve stability through bargaining and cooperation. Greenwald draws on game theory to explain what you should do if barriers to entry are strong, weak, or nonexistent. He covers a wide range of examples, from retail to telecommunications to auction houses, and his lessons can be applied whether your business is dominated by a single huge player, a handful of roughly equal players, or no one at all.--From publisher description.

Strategy Safari offers a clear, scholarly overview of ten influential schools of strategy, guiding managers past common fads toward a cohesive understanding of strategic planning.

"In Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge, Robert Hayes, Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright take a fresh look at the foundations of corporate success. These four authors, all leading authorities from the Harvard Business School, show how to achieve a competitive edge through superior operations - in a competitive environment that is increasingly global in scope, reliant on information technology, and comprised of networks of suppliers and collaborators."--BOOK JACKET.