Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Books on Strategy

By reviewing the word Strategy of Wikipedia, I got the following list of books. These are interesting and I shall put them all on my wish list on Amazon.com


Political strategy:

The Prince, published in 1532 by Niccolò Machiavelli (own it)
Arthashastra, written in the 4th century BC by Chanakya
The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

Military strategy:

The Art of War, written in the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu (own it)
The Art of War, written in the 19th century AD by Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini (own it)
The Book of Five Rings, written in the 17th century AD by Miyamoto Musashi (own it)
Strategikon, written in the 6th century AD by the Byzantine emperor Maurice
Taktikon, by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise
Reflexiones Militares by Santa Cruz de Marcenado
Essai général de la Tactique by Guibert (Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert)
On War, by Carl von Clausewitz (19th century)
Strategy, by B.H. Liddell Hart (own it)
On Guerrilla Warfare, by Mao Zedong
The Influence of Sea Power upon History, by Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Air Campaign, by Colonel John A. Warden, III
Makers of Modern Strategy, edited by Peter Paret
Strategy, by Edward N. Luttwak
The Strategy Makers, edited by Beatrice Heuser, ISBN 978-0-275-99826-4
OODA, by John Boyd
Sun tzu'

Economic strategy:

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936 by John Maynard Keynes (own it)
Business strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy, by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, 2005
Competitive Strategy, by Michael Porter
Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for Strategy and Strategy Concept II: Another Look at Why Organizations Need Strategies, by Henry Mintzberg
Winning In FastTime by John A. Warden, III and Leland A. Russell,
2002.
Designing Organization for Higher Performance by David P. Hanna, 1988.
Exploring Corporate Strategy by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes, 2001.
Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World by Dudley Lynch and Dr. Paul L. Kordis, 1988 (own it)

General strategy:

Strategy Safari, by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel.
Strategic Studies-Intelligence and strategy, by Gagliano Giuseppe, Uniservice, Nov 2009

Others:

Marcel Détienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Les Ruses de l'intelligence, Paris: Flammarion, 1993 (on the role of the Greek Metis)

2 comments:

  1. Awesome list!

    Man, I'd like to congratulate you for the blog. Really cool stuff.

    I suggest you put an about page to talk a little bit of you and a contact page.

    Keep posting! Cheers

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    1. Hello Paulo. Thank you very much for your comment. It is always welcome. I will take your recommendations too and I will work on a about page and a contact page. Thanks again. And come back often ;-)

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