Framework
Five Ps for strategy
The question it answers
When a leadership team debates strategy but each member means something different, are they talking about a plan, a ploy, a pattern, a position or a perspective?
- Origin
- Mintzberg, 1987
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Firm
- Topics
- Strategy & leadership
Diagram
Five Ps for strategy
Strategy
Plan
Ploy
Pattern
Position
Perspective
Pitfalls
Pitfall
Treating 'plan' as the only meaning and ignoring strategy that emerges from actual behaviour.
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- Mintzberg, H. (1987) ‘The strategy concept I: five Ps for strategy’, California Management Review, 30(1), pp. 11–24.doi:10.2307/41165263Source page