If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!

Strategies for Long-Term Growth

Leonard Sherman

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Columbia University Press
10 January 2017

Business strategy; Entrepreneurship; Management decision making; Sales & marketing

"Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. Conventional wisdom suggests that dogfights are to be expected as marketplaces mature, giving rise to the notion that there are ""bad"" industries where it is unlikely that any company can succeed.

But there are notable exceptions in which enlightened executives have changed the rules to grasp the holy grail of business: long-term profitable growth. Rather than joining the dogfights raging within their industry, companies such as Apple, FedEx, and Starbucks have chosen to become metaphorical cats, continuously renewing their distinctive strategies to compete on their own terms.

In If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat, Leonard Sherman draws on four decades of experience in management consulting, venture capital, and teaching business strategy at Columbia Business School to share practical advice on two of the most vexing issues facing business executives: why is it so hard to achieve long-term profitable growth, and what can companies do to break away from the pack?

Sherman takes the reader on a provocative journey through the building blocks of business strategy by challenging conventional wisdom on a number of questions that will redefine management best practices:

-What should be the overarching purpose of your business? -Do you really know what your strategy is? -Is there such a thing as a bad industry? -Where do great ideas come from and how do I find them? -What makes products meaningfully different? -What makes and breaks great brands? -How and when should I disrupt my own company? -What are the imperatives to achieving long-term profitable growth?

Filled with dozens of illustrative examples of inspiring successes and dispiriting falls from grace, this book provides deep insights on how to become the cat in a dogfight, whether you are a CEO, mid-level manager, aspiring business school student, or curious observer interested in achieving sustained profitable growth."

By: Leonard Sherman
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 794g
ISBN: 9780231174824
ISBN 10: 0231174829
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 10 January 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. The Origins of Modern Business Strategy Thinking 2. There's No Such Thing as a Bad Industry 3. Why Are We in Business? 4. The Search for the Holy Grail of Business: Long-Term Profitable Growth 5. Do You Know What Your Strategy Is? 6. Getting Strategy Right 7. Creating Strong Brands 8. Brand Builders and Killers 9. What Makes Products Meaningfully Different? 10. Where Do Great Ideas Come From? 11. Strategies to Break Away from the Pack 12. Hitting the Bull's-Eye Notes Index

Leonard Sherman is an executive in residence and adjunct professor of marketing and management at the Columbia Business School. He has worked as a senior partner at Accenture, as a managing partner of J.D. Power and Associates, and as a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton.

Reviews for If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth

A wonderfully comprehensive view of competition and competitive strategy and illustrating it well with contemporary examples and citing of the scholarly literature and inking that to action oriented techniques. -- John Czepiel, New York University Stern School of Business