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Be Unreasonable: The Unconventional Way to Extraordinary Business Results 11 reviews Paul Lemberg
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Plan To Spend Some Time With This Amazing Book
+ Responsible For Doubling My Business + Laura Goodrich + Excellent advice + Get the courage for tough economic times
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Outsmart the MBA Clones: The Alternative Guide to Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Branding 8 reviews Dan Herman
Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2008
Turn your MBA toolkit into a weapons system
+ Interesting, well-written. Good exercises, examples and ideas. + A Fresh Look at Short-Term Thinking + Should Be A Textbook + The real deal
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Be the Elephant: Build a Bigger, Better Business 10 reviews Steve Kaplan
Workman Publishing Company, 2007
Grow to be an Elephant!
+ Sharply written guide to helping your business grow + Adding this one to my FAVORITES list + Recommendation
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Monopoly Rules: How to Find, Capture and Control the World's Most Lucrative Markets in Any Business Milind M. Lele
Kogan Page Ltd, 2006
""Monopoly Rules" provides a really useful framework for sorting strategies that work from those that don't. It is exactly how successful entrepreneurs' minds work." - Alfred R. Berkeley, former president, The NASDAQ Stock Market. Milind Lele shows how to succeed in business by learning the new rules of monopoly - centered on acquiring 'an ownable space for a useful period of time in which you ...
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 225 reviews Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
A must-read for anyone involved in communication/presentation
+ Made for Success + Get your communication to "stick" just like an urban legend + Veteran reviews Made to Stick by Heath.
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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model 138 reviews Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, ...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003
...the perennial gale of creative destruction
+ Creating a business model for continuous improvement + opened my mind + Business Model Innovation Workbook + THIS I S A PRACTICAL BOOK
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant 167 reviews W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Strategy will always include opportunity and risk
+ Assumption Busting + Jake Olsen's Review of Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant + The mother of reinvention... + Blue Ocean
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Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy 8 reviews Oren Harari
FT Press, 2006
Great book!
+ Break from the Pack + Relevant and Timely + The power of "a radically compelling value proposition, hard economic logic, and fast efficient execution" + A game plan for creating standout products and profits
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Creating Competitive Advantage: Give Customers a Reason to Choose You Over Your Competitors 15 reviews Jaynie L. Smith, William G. Flanagan
Doubleday Business, 2006
Prescription for Improving Your Advertising
+ Creating Competetive Advatage + Creating Competive Advantage
If you are as tired as I am of being bombarded with advertisements and marketing that all say the same thing, and in the process, really says nothing, then this book is a revelation. Just as bad is dealing with sales reps who all say the same thing. As a consumer (personal and business), I'm ...
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Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness Stephane Garelli
Wiley, 2006
Three decades ago competitiveness was unheard-of; today it has taken the world by storm. But what is it? And will it last? In Top Class Competitors Stéphane Garelli - professor at IMD business school where he is also head of the World Competitiveness Centre, professor at the University of Lausanne, and former managing director of the World Economic Forum - defines competitiveness as the ability ...
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Creating Competitive Advantage: Give Customers a Reason to Choose You Over Your Competitors 15 reviews Jaynie L. Smith, William G. Flanagan
Doubleday Business, 2006
Prescription for Improving Your Advertising
+ Creating Competetive Advatage + Creating Competive Advantage
If you are as tired as I am of being bombarded with advertisements and marketing that all say the same thing, and in the process, really says nothing, then this book is a revelation. Just as bad is dealing with sales reps who all say the same thing. As a consumer (personal and business), I'm ...
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Monopoly Rules: How to Find, Capture and Control the World's Most Lucrative Markets in Any Business Milind M. Lele
Kogan Page Ltd, 2006
""Monopoly Rules" provides a really useful framework for sorting strategies that work from those that don't. It is exactly how successful entrepreneurs' minds work." - Alfred R. Berkeley, former president, The NASDAQ Stock Market. Milind Lele shows how to succeed in business by learning the new rules of monopoly - centered on acquiring 'an ownable space for a useful period of time in which you ...
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Be the Elephant: Build a Bigger, Better Business 10 reviews Steve Kaplan
Workman Publishing Company, 2007
Grow to be an Elephant!
+ Sharply written guide to helping your business grow + Adding this one to my FAVORITES list + Recommendation
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Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness Stephane Garelli
Wiley, 2006
Three decades ago competitiveness was unheard-of; today it has taken the world by storm. But what is it? And will it last? In Top Class Competitors Stéphane Garelli - professor at IMD business school where he is also head of the World Competitiveness Centre, professor at the University of Lausanne, and former managing director of the World Economic Forum - defines competitiveness as the ability ...
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Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy 8 reviews Oren Harari
FT Press, 2006
Great book!
+ Break from the Pack + Relevant and Timely + The power of "a radically compelling value proposition, hard economic logic, and fast efficient execution" + A game plan for creating standout products and profits
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 225 reviews Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
A must-read for anyone involved in communication/presentation
+ Made for Success + Get your communication to "stick" just like an urban legend + Veteran reviews Made to Stick by Heath.
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Be Unreasonable: The Unconventional Way to Extraordinary Business Results 11 reviews Paul Lemberg
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Plan To Spend Some Time With This Amazing Book
+ Responsible For Doubling My Business + Laura Goodrich + Excellent advice + Get the courage for tough economic times
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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model 138 reviews Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, ...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003
...the perennial gale of creative destruction
+ Creating a business model for continuous improvement + opened my mind + Business Model Innovation Workbook + THIS I S A PRACTICAL BOOK
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant 167 reviews W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Strategy will always include opportunity and risk
+ Assumption Busting + Jake Olsen's Review of Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant + The mother of reinvention... + Blue Ocean
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Outsmart the MBA Clones: The Alternative Guide to Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Branding 8 reviews Dan Herman
Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2008
Turn your MBA toolkit into a weapons system
+ Interesting, well-written. Good exercises, examples and ideas. + A Fresh Look at Short-Term Thinking + Should Be A Textbook + The real deal
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