Comments on: Of tea and strategy

By: xavier

xavier — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:33:37 +0000

Thanks for your comment.

You are right, this book can be too simple and irritating sometimes because of the whole mystical approach you sense in it.
This is why I tried to turn this “review” into something else.

By: seule771

seule771 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:16:43 +0000

Your depiction of the story for the Republic of Tea is very good. I had read the book by Mel Ziegler and Bill Rosenzweig and i had found their method of communicating and logging it all in a book to share their history of how it came to be to simplistic. But the Analysis you give provides good feedback.

i am saying that does not happen to build an empire through correspondence yet that is what the Republic of tea’s creation was through an informal exchange.

I found your post last evening and had forgotten that I had read their story a while back; earlier in the year. I have read a great many things on subject of tea; too much and some are repeated.

I do not mean to go on and on. Folks make fun of me for this. Thank you for sharing.

By: xavier

xavier — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:44:04 +0000

Thanks for the interest and the nice words on my approach.

Beware that the strategy processes mentioned in the model are meant to describe how organisations/companies create their strategy.
I managed to bring the model here because the Republic of Tea was a starting business and thus the vision/strategy of its creators became its own, which might or might not happen when you are working in an established company.

Let me know if you want to know more about this model and I will dig a little more to see what I can remember/find.

By: lahikmajoe

lahikmajoe — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:31:38 +0000

I really like the line, ‘To show through the metaphor of tea, the lightness of taking life sip by sip rather than gulp by gulp.’

That could get me in quite a pondering mood if I let myself. As I read this, I’m aware that I’m far more interested in emergent strategy than the other ones mentioned.

What an interesting take your blog has on the business of tea. I can’t remember seeing other teablogs that focused on this. Am looking forward to reading more.