Most organizations today strive to be agile, to adapt to new opportunities and threats, and become disproportionately successful with finite resources. We live in amazing times, but there is no entitlement in a VUCA world.
Every organization must
- overcome internal friction and disorder
- make decisions in the face of imperfect information about the changing nature of the marketplace and competitive landscape
- be creative on the what and how while fulfilling the why
- focus resources for maximum effectiveness
- manage the tempo of operations
- develop and leverage talent and creativity
I can point you to many decent business books on these topics. The absolute best 100 pages on these topics, however, is Warfighting. This is the US Marine manual on maneuver warfare. It has great depth and uses simple language. It fulfills Strunk & White’s dictum, “Omit needless words.” It’s a book you can go back to many times for fresh insights. Many pundits recommend Sun Tzu’s famous (and excellent) Art of War for strategy, but western business management is better served by the concepts in Warfighting.
I often use the paperback version and have given away many copies.
You can read a free copy because it’s a US Government publication:
