Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy.

Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics.

But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as never before, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. In The Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editor Walter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry:

- Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group

- Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company

- Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director of McKinsey & Company

-Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor

Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the way we work.

作者简介

沃尔特•基希勒三世，美国商业作家及资深记者，《财富》杂志前总编、哈佛商业出版社前总编及《哈佛商业评论》出版人。他毕业于哈佛大学并先后获得文学士、工商管理硕士和法学博士学位，并曾经在美国海军服役五年。他还是《办公时间：一部管理者人生的指导》一书的作者。

译者简介

慎思行，中国战略与咨询领域第三方领先研究服务机构，拥有本土最大的咨询顾问及战略管理人士网络，并与全球前30顶级咨询公司的保持深度合作，长期致力于企业战略管理领域和咨询行业发展的研究，并广受业内人士认可。