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Everything about Strategy

Discipline for achieving objectives against unpredictability, complexity, and ambiguity

Strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art of the general", which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century. From then until the 20th century, the word "strategy" came to denote "a comprehensive way to try to pursue political ends, including the threat or actual use of force, in a dialectic of wills" in a military conflict, in which both adversaries interact. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: StrategyA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: BCLC strategy for prognosis prediction and treatment recommendation: The 2022 updateInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Art of WarThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive AdvantageCited 34,159 times
  5. Go sideways: Strategic thinkingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Strategic managementA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

Noun A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Noun The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Military theory
  2. Management theory
  3. Game theory

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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