Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (Unabridged)
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4.1 • 51 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Playing to Win, a noted Wall Street Journal and Washington Post best seller, outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G’s sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The book shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business successwhere to play and how to win.
Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are: (1) What is our winning aspiration? (2) Where will we play? (3) How will we win? (4) What capabilities must we have in place to win? and (5) What management systems are required to support our choices? The result is a playbook for winning.
The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approachand then making the right choices to support itmakes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.
Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well.
Customer Reviews
A simple guid to strategy
While I am a firm believer that no single book in Everett be the answer to your business or personal development needs, I find that this book comes very close to a few of the books that I’ve found that tries to encompass the entire framework of a specific challenge.
A.G. Lafley and Rodger L Martin Made a good attempt at covering the notion of strategy and what strategy really is. They brought myriad of tools from other scholars businessman And entrepreneurs to bare on the topic.
Principles that I have an already exposed to from all the materials such as Michael Porter, Clay Christiansen and others I’ve been brought together in a specific way to help me understand what strategy really is.
All in all a great read.
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