The Lords of Strategy
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The Lords of Strategy
| Full title | The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World |
|---|---|
| Author | Walter Kiechel III |
| Published | 2010 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Bruce Henderson at BCG, Bill Bain, Fred Gluck at McKinsey and Michael Porter at Harvard — the four men Kiechel credits with inventing corporate strategy as a discipline — and the claim that the consulting industry invented the thing it sells. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the thread answering “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Strategy · Consulting — the two industries this covers.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.