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  • The must-read summary of Patricia B. Seybold's book: Customers.com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond".This complete summary of the ideas from Patricia B. Seybold's book "Customers.com" shows how your existing customers are the key to developing and implementing a successful e-commerce strategy. In her book, Patricia B. Seybold explains how you can position yourself...
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  • 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 Paul Nutt's book: "Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles".This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Nutt's book "Why Decisions Fail" shows that in order to make better decisions and avoid the debacles, you need to avoid the three blunders and seven traps that can lead to bad decisions. In...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Cohan's book: "e-Stocks: Finding the Hidden Blue Chips Among the Internet Impostors".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Cohan's book "e-Stocks" shows Internet stocks should not be permanently avoided, despite the dot.com crash of 2000. According to Peter Cohan, Internet stocks are still worth the investment with a disciplined approach. At the heart of...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter F. Drucker's book: "Management Challenges for the 21st Century: The Central Management Issues of Tomorrow".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter F. Drucker's book "Management Challenges for the 21st Century" shows how, in the last few years, the world has undergone massive social, economic and demographic change. Nowadays, executives must learn to react differently...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Keen and Mark McDonald's book: "The E-process Edge: Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet Era".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Keen and Mark McDonald's book "The E-process Edge" shows how in order to succeed, an internet business must address three crucial issues: how to establish a good enough relationship for...
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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 Peter S. Cohan's book: "Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Internet Business".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter S. Cohan's book "Net Profit" shows how thousands of businesses are in the process of migrating to the Internet because the entry barriers are so low at the present time. The...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Schwartz's book: "Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Schwartz's book "Inevitable Surprises" shows that most of the "surprises" that will hit the economic world in the next 25 years are actually predictable and inevitable. In his book, the author explains how every savvy businessperson should...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Senge's book: "The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" shows how important it is to learn faster than the competition. In his book, the author explains how you can get rid of obstacles that stop your company from learning...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Sims' book: "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Sims' book "Little Bets" shows that the best way to discover promising ideas is by placing lots of idea seeds and then building on those that work. In his book, the author explains how to use the...
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  • The must-read summary of Phil Harkins and Keith Hollihan's book: "Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX".This complete summary of the ideas from Phil Harkins and Keith Hollihan's book "Everybody Wins" tells the story of Dave Liniger and the creation of the real estate company RE/MAX. In their book, the authors analyse how the company has since gone on...
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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 Phil Rosenzweig's book: "The Halo Effect...and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers".This complete summary of the ideas from Phil Rosenzweig's book "The Halo Effect" shows how success in business is actually far more elusive than most business books, gurus and best-selling professors would have you believe. In his book, the author explains how the...
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  • The must-read summary of Pip Coburn's book: "The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn".This complete summary of the ideas from Pip Coburn's book "The Change Function" shows how launching new technology is a high-stake business: failure is expensive and success lucrative. Often failure or success is not predicated on the technology itself, but on...
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