THE CRUX: HOW LEADERS BECOME STRATEGISTS Hardcover – Import, 28 April 2022

I read both Good strategy bad strategy and this one on the go ignoring the fact both are written with a decade break...... lot to gain if one can grasp the concept well and it also comes with tons of case studies which are authors life journey as a consultant, but knowing a concept and appreciation are two different ball game as the latter comes with practice..... Strategy = identifying the key challenge + determine a guiding policy + strong implementation.... but he goes into the challenges and techniques for each of these as everytime we face a new challenge with a lot of uncertainty and how to navigate them .... he gives process which can be followed

This is a core strategy book, should ve there on every book shelve in the world.

Must read if you want to go beyond operations

One of the best books on strategy formulation, liberally sprinkled with case studies.

The author mixes practice and theory of strategy, using real cases as examples of good (and bad) practices. Good source of learning on strategy.

There is a lot of chatter about strategy in the business magazines and by a whole range of speakers and consultants. The Crux is an exceptional book that stands apart from the crowd. It is both practical and intellectually challenging. Rumelt does not shy away from stating the truth: many so-called strategies are just lists of “priorities” and wished-for results or outcomes. True strategy, he argues, is a form of problem solving, one that tackles unusually difficult and hard-to-solve challenges.To deal with this complexity he insists that you work with challenges. Understand them, analyze them, sort them by importance and by how difficult they are to solve. Don’t try to deal with them all because the essence of strategy is focus. Find the crux challenge—the one that is most important and yet still solvable. Design a way to deal with it. Then, after progress has been made, do it all again.This is a hard teaching. To do strategy properly, Rumelt argues, you have to solve a difficult problem. Not everyone wants to hear this. But, if you want to actually have a strategy rather than ambitions, this is exactly what you will have to do. The Crux should be required reading for every senior manager and every military officer.The book is replete with stories and examples, each of which is well told and sticks in your mind. The chapter on growth is especially interesting as is the treatment of “Bright Shiny Distractions.”

Rumelt can be considered the father of the modern strategy. This book lands specific tactics , such as the strategy foundry executive session, to define guiding policies and focus on actionable initiatives

Articulate, focused and hard to put down. Another strategy masterclass by an author increasingly in a class of his own when it comes to fluff free strategic insight.

Considero Rumelt un rifermento della strategia aziendale in grado di unire teoria ed esperienza pratica riuscendo a sganciare la strategia aziendale da una dimensione troppo spesso teorica e slegata dalle sfide che l'impresa deve affrontare ed essere in grado di superare. Prima di questo libro, consiglio peraltro di leggere il precedente Good Strategy Bad Strategy che ho visto ora pubblicato anche in lingua italiana, in quanto questo ne è la logica evoluzione. Lo ritengo un altro "must have".