The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?
How is it that the most carefully laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that "reality eats strategy for breakfast": strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.

Robert Rowland Smith advises blue-chip companies, teaches at London's School of Life, and writes, among other things, a regular column in the Sunday Times.

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The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?
How is it that the most carefully laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that "reality eats strategy for breakfast": strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.

Robert Rowland Smith advises blue-chip companies, teaches at London's School of Life, and writes, among other things, a regular column in the Sunday Times.

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The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?

The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?

by Robert Rowland Smith
The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?

The Reality Test: Still Relying on Strategy?

by Robert Rowland Smith

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Overview

How is it that the most carefully laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that "reality eats strategy for breakfast": strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.

Robert Rowland Smith advises blue-chip companies, teaches at London's School of Life, and writes, among other things, a regular column in the Sunday Times.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781251782
Publisher: IPS - Profile Books
Publication date: 01/13/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Robert Rowland Smith was for seven years a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He now advises blue-chip companies, teaches at London's School of Life, and writes, among other things, a column on 'life lessons' in the Evening Standard and a regular column in the Sunday Times. He contributes to the Philosophy Bites podcast series and speaks regularly on BBC radio. His books Breakfast with Socrates and Driving with Plato have been widely translated.
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