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The must-read summary of Joel Schuman's book: "Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America".
This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Schuman's book "Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller" shows how today's companies need a smarter way to grow. It is no longer useful to focus on major investments or acquisitions - the best place to look for future growth is actually in small entrepreneurial initiatives and ideas which...
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The must-read summary of Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's book: "Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right".
This complete summary of the ideas from Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's book "Confronting Reality" shows that confronting reality means changing the purpose and direction of your business on a regular basis, in order to reflect ongoing changes which occur in the marketplace. Most businesses try and get by on the assumptions...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Gordon Bethune's book "From Worst to First" shows that all successes in your business or in your career will be the result of your ability to create, develop and maintain healthy and honest relationships. As the author rightly points out, there is no such thing as a successful company that sells a product nobody wants and where employees don't want to come to work. In his book, Bethune explains how you must...
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The must-read summary of Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor's book: "The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth".
This complete summary of the ideas from Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor's book "The Innovator's Solution" shows how capital markets demand that all companies should grow by commercialising innovations. The companies who are successful in doing this are rewarded spectacularly, however only one company...
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The must-read summary of Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison's book: "The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits".
This complete summary of the ideas from Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison's book "The Profit Zone" shows how it is generally acknowledged that the company with the largest share of the market will ultimately generate the greatest profits. However, Slywotzky and Morrison suggest that not all market...
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The must-read summary of Theodore Modis' book: "Conquering Uncertainty: Understanding Corporate Cycles and Positioning Your Company to Survive the Changing Environment"
This complete summary of the ideas from Theodore Modis' book "Conquering Uncertainty" shows that anticipating the future of a business and taking suitable action, particularly during times of rapidly changing competitive business conditions, can be challenging. However, business changes...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Arthur Rubinfield and Collins Hemingway's book "Built for Growth" shows that great national and international retail success stories don't happen by accident. It isn't just a case of opening a store, making that store run well and then duplicating that first store ad infinitum. Instead, retail brands that win long-term have been designed for rapid growth right from the outset. All of the necessary elements have...
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The must-read summary of Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster's book: "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster's book "Blown to Bits" argues that within most traditional business models, there is a trade-off between richness and reach. In their book, the authors highlight that the Internet has the ability to remove this trade-off by being able to...
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The must-read summary of David Evans and Richard Schmalensee's book: "Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies".
This complete summary of the ideas from David Evans and Richard Schmalensee's book "Catalyst Code" shows how many of the most successful and profitable companies in the world became that way by acting as 'business catalysts' - they make their profits by bringing together different and distinct customer groups...
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This complete summary of the ideas from "The McKinsey Mind" explores the reasons behind the tremendous success of the eponymous strategic consulting firm, and presents the structured problem-solving process each McKinsey consultant uses in order to develop (and often help implement) solutions to their client's strategic problems. In this useful summary, you will learn how to use the McKinsey problem-solving methodology, so as to improve your decision-making...
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The must-read summary of Geoffrey Moore's book: "Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet".
This complete summary of the ideas from Geoffrey Moore's book "Living on the Fault Line" asks a fundamental question: "What should an established company which rose to prominence prior to the age of the Internet know and do about its stock price now the Internet has arrived?". The answer is both simple and complex...
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The must-read summary of Tom Murphy's book: "Web Rules: How the Internet Is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices".
This complete summary of the ideas from Tom Murphy's book "Web Rules" shows that the internet is changing the dynamics of the marketplace by placing the consumer firmly back in the driving seat. In recent times, big businesses and well-funded corporations have called the shots and made decisions on behalf of the consumers. But with...
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The must-read summary of Geoffrey Moore's book: "Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution".
This complete summary of the ideas from Geoffrey Moore's book "Dealing with Darwin" shows that in just the same way as a Darwinian battle for the survival of the fittest occurs in the natural world, a similar kind of phenomena often arises within the marketplace. In fact, to survive and prosper, companies need to...
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The must-read summary of Chris Zook's book: "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Future Growth".
This complete summary of the ideas from Chris Zook's book "Unstoppable" shows that, sooner or later, every company tends to reach a point at which its historical rate of growth flattens out. When you reach this junction, you have to decide whether or not to move to a new and different core business. In his book, the author explains...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Susan Annunzio's book "Contagious Success" shows that an in-depth study of 3,000 knowledge workers around the world was carried out to attempt to identify the management behaviors which accelerate profitable growth. Although 77% of these respondents claimed they belonged to a high-performing work group, only 10% of them actually belonged to work groups that generated profitable new products, services or processes....
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The must-read summary of Ricardo Semler's book: "The Seven-Day Weekend: Finding The Work/Life Balance".
This complete summary of the ideas from "The Seven-Day Weekend" exposes the origins of ingrained habits in the business world and explains how changing them might be for the better. This useful summary provides you with the tools necessary to identify said habits in your company and to implement changes that will benefit both your business and...
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The must-read summary of Alex Wipperfurth's book: "Brand Hijack: Marketing Without Marketing"
This complete summary of the ideas from Alex Wipperfurth's book "Brand Hijack" shows that companies like Starbucks, eBay, Palm and Red Bull have built multi-billion-dollar valuations without using any conventional advertising campaigns. The success of these companies demonstrate the smart approach to building a business and a brand in the twenty-first century...
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The must-read summary of Andrew Hargadon's book: "How Breakthroughs Happen: the Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate".
This complete summary of the ideas from Andrew Hargadon's book "How Breakthroughs Happen" explains how very few business innovations come from a 'lightbulb moment'. In reality, these breakthroughs are the result of 'technology brokering', where the ideas from one industry are implemented into another. In his book, the author...
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From near-extinction in the early eighties, Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existence. In The Lean Machine, readers learn about Harley-Davidson's secret weapon and go-to formula...
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The must-read summary of Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson's book: "What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking".
This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson's book "What's the Big Idea?" shows that when it comes to implementing new management ideas in an organisation, it's not the business gurus who really count. The most important people are the "idea...
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