Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin

BATB score: 3/10 🐢

only business schools and leadership programs memorizes strategic principles eg. OGSM (objectives, goals, strategy, and measure statement)

Best to: P&G is such a Gen X success story; Gen Z 'start-ups, ventures, hustles' can not really benefit from this book's do's and don't's

Best for: CEOs of global FMCG/CPG conglomerates esp when you are in charge of setting business strategies from merger and acquisition deals, supplier negotiations, consumer-product insights, portfolio management, and communicating the vision at townhalls

Best as: an orientation book for P&G new joiners, "Welcome to the company! Please read this book written by our founding father about the struggles we've been through and our key business decisions and why. Please memorize all the acronyms, brands, and strategic imperative for your onboarding. There will be a new joiner quiz at the end of the week."

Best quote: “CEO is an extraordinary lonely job when done well.”

"A company must play to win. To play merely to participate is self-defeating.”