Stephen Bungay's magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that[...]
El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in October, after 12 days of attritional tank ba[...]
Executing strategy is an enduring management problem. There is often a significant gap between what managers plan, what they do and the outcome they achieve. Stephen Bungay finds a fresh approach from an unexpected source - the nineteenth-century Prussian Army. His solution is based not on theory, b[...]
»Hvad vil du have, jeg skal gøre?«
De fleste ledere mener, at problemet med at eksekvere strategi består i at få folk til at gøre, som der står i planerne.Medarbejdere bliver handlekraftige og motiverede, hvis lederen skaber tydelig retning og fokus og samtidig giver[...]