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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (Lafley, Martin, 2013)
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Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are:

• What is our winning aspiration?
• Where will we play?
• How will we win?
• What capabilities must we have in place to win?
• What management systems are required to support our choices?

The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach - and then making the right choices to support it - makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.
 
JLJ -  Case studies and lessons learned. "what matters is winning. Great organizations... choose to win rather than simply play... Winning should be at the heart of any strategy"

p.3 strategy is an integrated set of choices that uniquely positions the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage and superior value relative to the competition.