雕琢戰(zhàn)略 / Crafting Strategy


「釋義」
加拿大管理學大師Henry Mintzberg在其管理思想發(fā)展路徑上里程碑式的文章《雕琢戰(zhàn)略》中顛覆了傳統(tǒng)戰(zhàn)略觀點,指出戰(zhàn)略應該是一門手藝。思考和行動的同一性是雕琢戰(zhàn)略的關鍵。
Henry Mintzberg是管理學界的叛逆者。他是“管理者角色學派”的代表人物,其核心貢獻是對管理者工作的分析。
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「應用場景」
想象一下,戰(zhàn)略應該是怎樣被“計劃”出來的?很有可能,浮現(xiàn)你眼前的畫面是這樣的:一位高管,或者幾位高管,坐在辦公室里程式化地規(guī)劃著一系列公司的行動方案,所有人都必須按部就班地執(zhí)行這些方案?!坝媱潯钡闹攸c在于理性:理性地掌控全局,系統(tǒng)地分析競爭對手、宏觀市場以及公司的優(yōu)勢和局限,在綜合分析的基礎上,這群人就能“想”出來一個明晰、完整的戰(zhàn)略計劃。
Imagine someone planning strategy. What likely springs to mind is an image of orderly thinking: a senior manager, or a group of them, sitting in an office formulating courses of action that everyone else will implement on schedule. The keynote is reason—rational control, the systematic analysis of competitors and markets, of company strengths and weaknesses, the combination of these analyses producing clear, explicit, full-blown strategies.
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再想象一下,如果將戰(zhàn)略視為藝術家雕琢作品,那它應該被如何“雕琢”出來?與機械的計劃相比,這將是完全不同的景象。手藝活可是要結合傳承的技藝、傾情的投入以及專注于細節(jié)的完美追求?!巴度搿迸c“理性思考”的不同之處就在于,經過長時間的經驗和感性認知的積累,你應該能夠感受到手指接觸到材質時細膩的觸感,以及人與物的和諧統(tǒng)一。而戰(zhàn)略的成型和實施則是一個水到渠成的過程,創(chuàng)造性的戰(zhàn)略也由此生成。
Now imagine someone?crafting?strategy. A wholly different image likely results, as different from planning as craft is from mechanization. Craft evokes traditional skill, dedication, perfection through the mastery of detail. What springs to mind is not so much thinking and reason as involvement, a feeling of intimacy and harmony with the materials at hand, developed through long experience and commitment. Formulation and implementation merge into a fluid process of learning through which creative strategies evolve.
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我的觀點很簡單:“雕琢”一詞更靈動地抓住了有效戰(zhàn)略制定這一過程的精髓,“計劃”戰(zhàn)略則曲解了戰(zhàn)略制定的過程,而且不可逆轉地誤導了公司運用它的方法。
My thesis is simple: the crafting image better captures the process by which effective strategies come to be. The planning image, long popular in the literature, distorts these processes and thereby misguides organizations that embrace it unreservedly.
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《雕琢戰(zhàn)略》
亨利·明茨伯格
2012年12月刊
“Crafting Strategy”
by Henry Mintzberg
編輯:馬冰侖?