The Emergent Approach to Strategy

Adaptive Design & Execution

De: Peter Compo

Narrado por: Michael Coleman

Despite how much is written about strategy, and money spent on it, reports of chronic failures persist. Two causes dominate. Strategy is still not fully defined, and strategy practice is still largely based on a planned view of the world. Change and innovation, however, are not wholly planned but emerge from the myriad interactions of the players involved—some by design, many not. This science of complex adaptive systems must be the bedrock on which strategy is built.

The Emergent Approach to Strategy derives strategy definition, theory, and practice from adaptive systems. Aimed at corporate business and functional leaders, but broadly applicable, the approach includes an agile method for strategy framework design that replaces stepwise “chevron” methods and presents a new set of tests of strategy called the five disqualifiers.

This book offers no promise of easy “transformations.” Change and
innovation are hard, sometimes ugly, with no guarantees. But with sound principles and discipline, organizations can efficiently raise the probability of success."

Your purchase of this audiobook includes a special PDF booklet with the figures, tables, and frameworks accompanying the text, which you can also download from the emergentapproach.com website.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Business Expert Press, LLC (P)2024 Peter Compo

This book and Compo deserve wider reading

Highly practical and yet deeply philosophical from someone who has been in a business setting and has also read widely and thought deeply about human decision making and behavior. The five disqualifiers, the Strategy Alternatives Matrix (SAM), and Four Stations Dashboard are just three of the exceptionally insightful tools in this book. Unfortunately the narrator choice was poor, the book cover is unappealing and the writing could have used a better editor. So many good ideas but the presentation is a bit too gritty. All that said, I highly recommend this book and a good friend who is highly accomplished and well read recommended it to me.

Don't buy this audiobook

The book itself is great, but the audio version is awful.

1. It is apparently narrated by AI, and the male voice is very monotonous.

2. The book contains many pictures, frameworks and diagrams, and every time when there is a picture in a page, the monotonous female voice announces: 1) the number of the picture, 2) the picture title, and 3) the same phrase that you can download a PDF or see the picture on the web-site.

It drives me crazy to hear it every 10-20 seconds.

I've ordered the paperback copy and will read it.