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Why Is It That Many Companies Meticulously Following Recipes On Management And Strategy Fail? Why Is That Some Companies Achieve A Higher Return On Strategy Than Others? This Book Provides An Overview Of Contemporary Strategy Literature And Recipes Brushed Up With A View To Identifying Explanations As To How They Have Seldom Worked As Intended. One Reason Rests On The Fact That Recipes Do Not Take The X-factor Into Account. With The X-factor As The Starting Point The Book Examines A Sample Of 50 Global Companies, Some Of Which Have Achieved A Remarkably High Return On Strategy While Others Failed.--[book Jacket]. Are We Able To Produce Gold? The X-factor Universe Is Overlooked In Strategy! -- The Recipe Game -- The Strategy Landscape -- The Strategy System Or How To Combine Perspectives -- What Triggers Strategy? -- Exploiting Customer Attitudes -- Revising The Product Portfolio -- Leveraging The Financial Circuit -- Optimizing The Organizational Design -- Spinning The Technological Chain -- Driving The Leadership Genes -- Inroads To The Achievement Of A Higher Return On Strategy. Michael Moesgaard Andersen, Morton Froholdt And Flemming Poulfelt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [297]-303) And Index.