Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes to Create Competitive Advantage (Concise Version)

Oversized hardcover, xx + 295 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Gentle handling wear only. VG untorn dust jacket. -- This concise version provides a streamlined framework for understanding strategic management through the lens of strategy paradoxes. Bob De Wit and Ron Meyer challenge the idea that there is a single "right" way to manage a business, instead presenting strategy as a series of conflicting tensions - such as logic vs. creativity, deliberate vs. emergent planning, and globalisation vs. localisation. The book is structured around these paradoxes, encouraging managers and students to synthesise opposing views rather than choosing one over the other. This synthesis approach is designed to foster competitive advantage by balancing contradictory demands like stability and change or competition and cooperation. As a "concise" edition, it strips away much of the dense academic case studies found in the full volume to focus on the core theoretical models and the Strategy Dialogue framework used in professional boardrooms.…