Strategic Thinking
Strategy for business, war and everyday life, from ancient classics like The Art of War to studies of how companies win. Learn to plan ahead and choose where to compete.
Strategic Thinking Library

A New Way To Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-Violent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators or Simply Change the World

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Cracked it!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants

Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future

Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire

Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business

Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy

Co-opetition

Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top

Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work

Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations

Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future―in Your Own Life, Your Community, the World

Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs - an Antidote for Short-Termism

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

Napoleon the Great

Move by Move: Life Lessons on and Off the Chessboard

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

On War

On Grand Strategy

Non-Obvious: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

Purposeful Performance: The Secret Mix of Connecting, Leading, and Succeeding

Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes

Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons From Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs

Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions