Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The New How
Nilofer Merchant · 2010
74/100
👍 Worth It
Merchant makes a genuinely important argument — that strategy without the people who execute it is just a document — and the MurderBoard concept is one of those rare business-book tools that is immediately usable. The writing is clearer than most O'Reilly business titles and the Apple/Adobe/HP credibility is real. It's lighter on extended case studies than readers who want to see the method in action will hope for, and some of its collaborative-strategy ideas have since become conventional wisdom, but it holds up as a principled, practical framework.
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