'This is a fascinating and important book, beautifully literate, very imaginative, stimulating, and challenging, especially for those under the illusion that 'strategy' is a straightforward term. The metaphor of the poverty of strategy, which essentially turns poverty on its head, is brilliant. For anyone who wants to see paradox enacted in practice, here is the place to look. This book is a gift to us all.' Jean M. Bartunek, Professor of Management and Organization, Boston College
'Combining Nietzschean gaiety with the political sobriety of Hannah Arendt, The Poverty of Strategy rewrites the theory of organisational strategy as an open-ended response to Alan Turing's implied question: Who am I? From the ruins of the ancient polis to artificial intelligence, Holt and Zundel deftly turn managerial reason inside out to discover irreverent, unfixed life lurking in the shadows of modernity's most hermetic machines.' Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University