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id: "entity-playing-to-win-book"
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subtype: "publication"
canonicalName: "Playing to Win"
aliases: ["Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works"]
source_timestamps: ["¶19"]
tags: ["books", "strategy"]
related: ["framework-playing-to-win", "entity-roger-martin", "entity-ag-lafley"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-57-smb-cyber-risk"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/ai-is-changing-cyber-risk-heres-how-smbs-can-respond"
sourceTitle: "AI Is Changing Cyber Risk. Here’s How SMBs Can Respond."
---
# Playing to Win (book)

**Role in the source:** referenced at the close (¶19) as the basis for an HBR strategy toolkit. It supplies the strategic-decision scaffolding into which the article's cyber-risk guidance can nest.

**Profile:** a seminal, widely recognized business-strategy book by [[entity-roger-martin|Roger Martin]] and [[entity-a-g-lafley|A.G. Lafley]] (full title *Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works*), introducing the five-question cascading strategy framework captured in [[framework-playing-to-win]]. Published via Harvard Business Review Press and used across industries to structure strategic choices.

> [!note] Enrichment note
> This is a well-documented, mainstream strategy title — the most solidly verifiable reference in the source.