The Strategy Elephant World's best-known management maverick takes apart the various strategy 'schools', a self-confessed Leftist on India's globalisation experience, and inspiring lessons in leadership.

STRATEGY SAFARI

By Mukul Pandya and Robbie Shell

Wharton School Publishing

PP: 466

Price: Rs 350

It's no exaggeration to say that for every manager in the world,there's a unique strategy. Which is why different companies performdifferently and even within the same organisation, all the managersdon't deliver equally. Why should that be the case when companies, atleast the better ones, recruit managers with comparable strategyskill sets and operate in more or less the same environment? There'sno simple answer to it, but what it does point to is the complexityinvolved in strategising. It really starts with some fundamentalissues, not least of which …