{"product_id":"the-boston-consulting-group-on-carl-w-stern-9780471757221","title":"The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Consulting Group on Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"You have to be the scientist of your own life and be astonished four times: at what is, what always has been, what once was, and what could be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The majority of products in most companies are cash traps . . . .[They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When information flows freely, reputation, more than reciprocity, becomes the basis for trust.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection ofjazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rather than being an obstacle, uncertainty is the very engine of transformation in a business, a continuous source of new opportunities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"IP assets lack clear property lines. Every bit of intellectual property you can own comes with connections to other valuable innovations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl W. Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0471757225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471757221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.36w x 1.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 119","brand":"Carl W. Stern","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990192652543,"sku":"9780471757221","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57e74940-2868-466c-bbb0-db474d94124f.jpg?v=1683303525","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-boston-consulting-group-on-carl-w-stern-9780471757221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}