The must-read summary of Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi's book: "The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities Driven-Strategy".This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi's book "The Essential Advantage" shows how everyone in business tries to earn and then sustain an essential advantage – to be doing things their competitors can’t match. The companies...
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The must-read summary of Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight and Tracey Keys' book: "Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them, Again and Again".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight and Tracey Keys' book "Must-Win Battles" shows that there are three to five key battles that your company must win in the marketplace in order to achieve your revenue...
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The must-read summary of Peter Navarro's book: "The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Navarro's book "The Well-Timed Strategy" shows how understanding the business cycle and then using it to maximum advantage is an unexploited area of business management expertise. And yet, it makes good sense to use the cycle...
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The must-read summary of Phil McKinney's book: "Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions that Spark Game-Changing Innovation".This complete summary of the ideas from Phil McKinney's book "Beyond the Obvious" explains that the key to coming up with game changing and radical ideas is to discipline yourself to let go of your assumptions and re-visit the vital core question which underpins everything...
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The must-read summary of Quint Studer's book: "Results that Last: Hardwiring Behaviors that Will Take Your Company to the Top".This complete summary of the ideas from Quint Studer's book "Results that Last" investigates what generates genuinely exceptional results. The usual list of suspects really doesn’t make sense: firstly, outstanding products or services are helpful but competitors can and do clone...
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The must-read summary of Rhonda M. Abrams' book: "The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies".This complete summary of the ideas from Rhonda M. Abrams' book "The Successful Business Plan" shows how a business plan is designed to be a road map for a company. A well-written and professional business plan articulates a company’s goals and acts as a guide for...
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The must-read summary of Rita Gunther McGrath's book: "The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business".This complete summary of the ideas from Rita Gunther McGrath's book "The End of Competitive Advantage" shows that maintaining a competitive advantage in today's dynamic and ever-changing marketplace is no longer the best business strategy. The author...
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The must-read summary of Robert Pino's book: "Corporate Aikido: Unleash the Potential Within Your Company to Neutralize Competition and Seize Growth".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Pino's book "Corporate Aikido" applies the martial art of aikido to business by using resources to build your own corporation's strengths rather than to respond to the actions of competitors. In his...
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The must-read summary of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book: "Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book "Alignment" shows that most organisations consist of multiple departments and operating units which are run by highly trained individuals. Whilst each unit operates consistently and...
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The must-read summary of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book: "The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book "The Strategy-Focused Organization" shows that highly productive organisations implement strategy exceptionally well. In their book, the authors explain that these organisations...
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The must-read summary of Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao's book: "Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling For Less".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao's book "Scaling Up Excellence" shows you how you can look at a part of your organisation that is working well and get all the other parts to follow. According...
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The must-read summary of Robert Tucker's book: "Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Tucker's book "Driving Growth Through Innovation" shows how the best and only way to actually grow a company is to innovate – to offer customers something new. In his book, the author explains how innovation...
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The must-read summary of Roger Connors and Tom Smith’s book: “Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results”. This complete summary of the ideas from Roger Conners and Tom Smith’s book “Change the Culture, Change the Game” explains that culture is at the heart of every organisation. According to the...
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The must-read summary of Roy Spence and Haley Rushing's book: "It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose". This complete summary of the ideas from Roy Spence and Haley Rushing's book "It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For" shows that high-performing companies are not always the ones...
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The must-read summary of Sergio Zyman's book: "Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not Be the Right Thing".This complete summary of the ideas from Sergio Zyman's book "Renovate Before You Innovate" shows that instead of “exploring new possibilities” and getting into new lines of business they know little about, companies should be focusing on doing more...
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The must-read summary of Seth Godin's book: "Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync?".This complete summary of the ideas from Seth Godin's book "Meatball Sundae" shows that sometimes when you mix two good ideas, you can come up with something incompatible. A meatball sundae sounds entirely unappetising, even though in and of themselves meatballs might taste nice and ice...
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