This is a very ambitious book, that partly meets its goals of being a practical strategy book with implementation advice, all while trying to demystify the concepts of strategy. Unfortunately, it is only some 400 odd pages, when it should have been around 2.000-3.000 to be able to fulfill its ambitions. The reduction in pages, means that some important/well-known concepts are ignored and that the explanations becomes too short to help someone that hasn't been through a strategy course already.

Still, this is not a bad book, even though it doesn't live up to its ambitions. I would recommend any newly minted MBA or anyone that hasn't been practising strategy yet, to read it. I found it enjoyable myself as well, even though some glaring omissions (in my view) is very apparent at even a cursory reading.