Extraordinary Resource on Strategy

One online subscription just yielded an extraordinary free resource that anyone even a little interested in strategy should download now, while it's free.

Strategy + Business (http://www.strategy-business.com) is an e-zine put out by Booz & Company. I've been reading it for years, and find it's usually very insightful. 

But today's issue offers a free download of the latest book by Harvard Business Review.  It's a series of articles (with "quick-read" summaries for those of us with tiny attention spans) that define some foundational ideas on strategy.  They call it their "Must-Read" list, and I agree!

The articles in this 143-page compendium include Porter's "What is Strategy" and "Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy," Collins & Porras' "Building Your Company's Vision," Kim & Malborgne's "Blue Ocean Strategy," Mankins & Steele's "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and several more.

Thanks to Booz & Company for subsidizing the free download of the whole book - well worth downloading before the offer expires June 15, when Harvard Business School will likely start to sell it.