1. To find out.

Is SM and SP different or SP is a part of SM

2. Difference Strategy formulation and Process of SM.
3. Is Values of a company part of Strategic intent?

Here are the Best Strategy Books for Entrepreneurs and Managers

1. Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise by J.C. Spender

Before entering the academic world, J.C. Spender was an account manager and special products planner
for Rolls Royce and IBM, as well as a merchant banker working with Silicon Valley. Spender takes his
years of experience and blends that with case studies and theories to develop a new understanding of
strategy.

Review: "Business managers usually say more than they intend, so employees often interpret strategies
differently and go in different directions. Spender re-examines strategizing under conditions of
uncertainty, showing entrepreneurs construct special language to shape what others note and act on. He
provides managers and consultants with a structured practice for value-creation." -- Andrew H. Van de
Ven, University of Minnesota

2. Return On Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing by
Mark Schaefer
As a marketing veteran, author, founder, and Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, Mark
Schaefer has helped businesses develop their influence and authority in their respective businesses. In
this groundbreaking book, Schaefer interviewed over 50 experts an provides explanation on how to use
social and to build brand awareness and boost sales.

Review: "I could not stop reading this book. Mark Schaefer demystifies the power of influence in this
insider's guide to combining content strategy with network interactions to create social conversations
that move markets." -- Ardath Albee, author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

3. Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers by Niraj Dawar

Niraj Dawar is Professor of Marketing at the Ivey Business School, Canada, and has appeared in
publications like Harvard Business Review, the M.I.T. Sloan Management Review, and the Financial Times.
With Tilt, he helps businesses achieve a competitive edge by designing strategies around customer
interactions.

Review: “Tilt challenges us to place customers at the heart of strategy. With product cycles shortening
and product costs shrinking, this book brings to life a deeper understanding of how strategy can be made
more powerful. A must-read.” -- Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO, ZenBanx Inc; former Chairman and CEO, ING
Direct
4. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the
Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are both Professors of Strategy at INSEAD, as well as Co-Directors of the
INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Their best-selling book argues you should be focus on creating
unique market opportunities, as opposed to constantly battling the competition.

Review: “This breakthrough book is essential for any strategist or entrepreneur who wants to move out
of intensively competitive, shark-infested waters and into an opportunity filled, open ocean.” — Business
Insider

5. Fewer, Bigger, Bolder: From Mindless Expansion to Focused by Sanjay Khosla

While as President of Kraft Foods developing markets, Sanjay Khosla increased revenue growth from $5
billion to $16 billion during a six-year period. Khosla shares his experience, as well as case studies from
companies like Cisco and Spirit, to develop a seven-step model to increase profit growth.

Review: “A breakthrough blueprint for growth, this book is about the transformational payback that
comes from investment in your workforce.” -- Tony Vernon, CEO, Kraft Foods Group, Inc.

6. Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both
Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude by Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ and author of the bestselling books Hundred
Percenters and HARD Goals. With Hiring for Attitude, Murphy uses research from Leadership IQ to
discover why 46% of new hires fail within their first year and a half. Murphy then provides case studies
and tests so that you can hire the people with the right attitude.

Review: “Success in business starts with finding great talent that will thrive within your company culture.
Hiring for Attitude combines valuable insights with relatable examples, giving you the tools to recruit the
right talent for your organization and reduce your risk of mishires.” -- Brent Rasmussen, President of
CareerBuilder North America

7. The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive by
Terri L. Griffith
Terri Griffith, Ph.D., Chair of the Management Department at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of
Business, has relied on technology and organization to help accomplish tasks and goals. With the
Plugged-In Manager, Griffith argues that managers must not only embrace technology, they must also be
plugged-in with people. She profiles leaders such as Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com to prove this point.

Review: "Want to help your organization kick ass in the marketplace? Read this book. It will prepare you
to manage for this century, when most management books prepare you to lead in the last one." -- Nilofer
Merchant, behavioral strategist; and author, The New How
8. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business
Environment by Robert Kaplan and David Norton
In their Balanced Scorecard, Kaplan and Norton unveiled their revolutionary "performance management
system". For their follow-up, Kaplan and Norton researched over 200 companies who had implemented
the Balanced Scorecard. By using this technique, these companies were able to create strategy-focused
organizations.

Review: “Kaplan and Norton chronicle the long-overdue shift from management 'by the numbers' to a
performance management process that places well-articulated, knowledge-based strategies at the
center of every employee's activities. Given the pace of change in the new economy, strategy-focused
processes that are measurable, repeatable, and supported by superior information are the only true
sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Organizations that ignore this reality do so at their own
risk.” -- James H. Goodnight, President & CEO, SAS

9. Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg,
Joseph Lampel and Bruce Ahlstrand
These three colleagues deliver an extensive and entertaining history of strategic management that traces
its evolution throughout the years - mainly the ten schools of strategy from the last forty years. This
international bestseller combines these various schools of thought and creates a straightforward guide in
how-to form a strategy.

Review: "Read the book. Let Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel guide you on an
enlightening and entertaining excursion through the field of strategy making." -- Lawrence Bennigson,
Senior Fellow of the Executive Development Center of the Harvard Business School

10. Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter
John P. Kotter, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, is
a globally recognized authority in leadership and change. In this 2014 book, Kotter presents his case for a
new “dual operating system” network that can help organizations handle strategic challenges and change
with the times.

Review: “A Top Shelf Best Business Book pick of the Year: Strategy” -- strategy+business magazine

11. The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter
Kiechel
The editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing and the managing editor at Fortune magazine, as
well as the author of Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life, Walter Kiechel III shares the
extraordinary story of the four men who invented corporate strategy (Bruce Henderson, founder of
Boston Consulting Group; Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company; Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director
of McKinsey & Company; and Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor).

Review: “[Kiechel’s] ‘The Lords of Strategy’ is a clear, deft and cogent portrait of what the author calls
the most powerful business idea of the past half-century…” --The Wall Street Journal
12. Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies From the Inside Out and What to Do
About It by Tom Rieger
Rieger, a Senior Practice Expert with Gallup Inc., has the experience and talent to break down barriers so
a business can succeed. In Breaking the Fear Barrier, Rieger, illustrates through research how fear can be
destructive and how you can control and tackle that fear.

Review: “These may seem like insurmountable obstacles, but Rieger maintains that because these
barriers were built internally, they can be destroyed internally. He offers solid tactics for how anyone can
root out fear in their organizations and establish a culture of confidence, engagement, and long-term
success.” -- Matthew E. May Strategic Facilitation & Ideation, MatthewEMay.com

13. Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company's Intellectual Property by
Andrew J. Sherman
As a partner at Jones Day, Andrew J. Sherman has worked with international companies in various stages
of development. With this thought-provoking book, Sherman shares his own experiences and examples
from companies like Google on how to convert intellectual property into revenue.

Review: “You will come away with a much better practical sense of how intangibles fit into business
strategy and how to develop that strategy….Sherman has made a strong contribution towards helping
business develop strategies utilizing their intangibles. The book should be widely read.” --The Intangible
Economy

14. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins

Bestselling author Jim Collins provides the seven characteristics that it takes for a business to become
successful after examining each and every one of the 1,400 companies included in the Fortune 500 since
1965 - which he narrows down to 11 to discuss in Good to Great.

Review: "Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest
technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of
those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted
disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner.” -- Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com

15. The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit and
Barry J. Nalebuff
These two professors, and game strategy theorists, use case studies from pop culture, history and sports
to prove how individual and business interactions can use game components as a part of their strategy.

Reviews: "It is an easy read and is written in a lively tone-which is not something I particularly recall
from my lectures in the 1980s. Long live economics!" John Burns, The Times Higher Education
"Unlike most of the ranks of management advice books which pad out bookshop business sections, here
is one which is rigorous, fun and extremely useful all at the same time." -- The Economist