New Style Strategy

Jyo Sakai said he told two new things on "strategy" on this book. The first new thing is that strategy should be built by bottom-up. The second new thing is that business people should decide their start point, their goal and the way from the start to goal.
If they were something new, nobody could believe it. As far as I see the history, Each Japanese military unit decided own strategy, and the units sometimes overdrove and were wiped out finally. He doesn't seem that, does he? The bottom-up strategy has both prod and cons. It's been one of the Japanese characteristics.