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Ten Schools Of Thoghts Mintzberg
HENRY MINTZBERG TEN SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTS MODEL

Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on strategy by leading management thinker Professor Henry Mintzberg of at McGill University and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.

No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool -- it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide.

Strategy Safari makes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades.
Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth, Strategy Safari maps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation.

What are the Ten Schools of Thought? Description
The Ten Schools of Thought model from Mintzberg is a framework that can be used to categorize the field of Strategic Management.
1. The Design School. This school sees strategy formation as a process of conception.
Approach: Clear and unique strategies are formulated in a deliberate process. In this process, the internal situation of the organization is matched to the external situation of the environment.

2. The Planning School. This school sees strategy formation as a formal process.
Approach: A rigorous set of steps are taken, from the analysis of the situation to the execution of the strategy.

3. The Positioning School. This school sees strategy formation as an analytical

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