Speed Read - Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Ray Kieser

This Speed Read summarises 'Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works' by AG Lafley and Roger L Martin, which discusses how companies can embed strategic thinking and processes throughout their organisation.

Speed read – Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Ray KieserSGK Europe

This Speed Read was originally published in Admap – April 2014 issue.

This book emphasises the need for businesses io build a strategy that is focused on winning and this strategy should be in evidence throughout the organisation's structure.

Playing to Win, by A.G. Lafley and Roger L Martin is a roadmap of how companies can effectively embed strategic thinking, process and infrastructure throughout their organisation.

Using Procter & Gamble as its regular touchstone, P&G chief executive officer A.G. Lafley and...

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