After coming back from ISB, I felt need for stocking my bookshelf with management books, which is otherwise full with technology and software development process books. I visited local Landmark store in Gurgaon which is apart from being the best bookshop in the town also sells an unbeatable collection of music CDs and DVDs.
I bought three books namely Business Strategy by Jeremy Kourdi, Guide to Analysing Companies by Bob Vause and Kotler on Marketing by Philips Kotler.
My Reading Notes on Business Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision Making
I have just done my first pass reading of the book Business Strategy. This book is from ‘The Economist’ series. The book is in a digest format where many ideas such as Strategies for Growth, Rational and Intuitive Decision Making etc. are covered. It covers several case studies and quotes various popular literature on Strategy. I found it good because of its compact and dense format which can be quickly put in the Power Point bullets for sharing with others. However, the book lacks detailed explanation of the ideas such as Scenario Thinking, Vertical and Lateral Thinking etc. Probably each of these topics call for a separate book altogether.
