Strategy: A History [Audiobook] download free by Sir Lawrence Freedman
- Listen audiobook: Strategy: A History
- Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman
- Release date: 2014/4/7
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780199325153
- Rating: 9.63 of 10
- Votes: 168
- Review by: Kyla Jenkins
- Review rating: 8.87 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/7
- Duration: 9H41M6S in 256 kbps (153.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP4, WMA, WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA Lossless, MPEG4 (compression 7Z, DMG, ISO, RAR, ZIP, Z)
- Total pages original book: 768
- Includes a PDF summary of 63 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 46M58S (12.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of theleading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that theinherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in thisbook is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point. A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Business Strategy, International Relations, Defence Strategy, Planning & Research, General & World History, Political Science & Theory, Military History
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 45.34 USD
- Dimensions: 167x235x60mm
- Weight: 1,332g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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