Current Book: Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Why this book?
Recommended by a number of folks, we hope to get a few things out of Good Strategy Bad Strategy:
1) Understand how better decisions and strategic direction can be made.
2) Get better at identifying bad strategies.
3) Figure out how we can apply this in our personal and professional lives.
4) Become a better coach on strategic thinking for team members and colleagues.

Progress: 43% done.

Notable Quotes so far:

"A hallmark of true expertise and insight is making a complex subject understandable. A hallmark of mediocrity and bad strategy is unnecessary complexity - a flurry of fluff masking an absence of substance."

"Bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy"

"A change in strategy will make some people worse off. Hence there will be powerful forces opposed to almost any change in strategy."

"It looks to me as if there's really only one question you were asking in each case. That question is “what's going on here?””

"A great deal of strategy work is trying to figure out what is going on. Not just deciding what to do, but the more fundamental problem of comprehending the situation."