Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GRMUSOS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 561 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cristian Guajardo Garcia said Where and how to play. I’m always in for a good business book, specially when one of the protagonists was your professor.Filippo Passerini was one of the main executives for P&G. He lead the M&A with Gillette and brought new IT capabilities to the company. During the classes at the MBA, he used to talk about this VUCA world (vulnerable, unpredictable, chaotic and ambiguous). Several times he talked about Playing to Win an. "Great companies do not become great by accident" according to Ian Mann. Great companies do not become great by accident; they become great through the strategic choices they make. Great companies do not remain great by inertia; they remain great through the strategic choices they make. Procter and Gamble (P&G) is a great company by any measure. In 2012, it recorded $8Great companies do not become great by accident Great companies do not become great by accident; they become great through the strategic choices they make. Great companies do not remain great by inertia; they remain great through the strategic choices they make. Procter and Gamble (P&G) is a great company by any measure. In 2012, it recorded $83.68 billion dollars in sales and Fortune magazine ranked the company the fifth most admired in the world.Lafl. .68 billion dollars in sales and Fortune magazine ranked the company the fifth most admired in the world.Lafl. "Strategy Sameness: Recipe for Mediocrity" according to John W. Pearson. So what do Bounty paper towels have to do with the strategy question? It’s a fascinating case study noted in chapter three of this fascinating book on strategy, "Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works" (Harvard Business Review Press, 201Strategy Sameness: Recipe for Mediocrity So what do Bounty paper towels have to do with the strategy question? It’s a fascinating case study noted in chapter three of this fascinating book on strategy, "Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).It’s so fascinating I now bring a Bounty paper towel roll to client sessions on strategic planning.At Procter & Gamble in 2001, the president of global f. ).It’s so fascinating I now bring a Bounty paper towel roll to client sessions on strategic planning.At Procter & Gamble in 2001, the president of global f
This is A.G. If you want to know the strategy he'll use to restore P&G to its former dominance, read this book.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). Shouldn't it be yours as well?Winning CEO A.G. 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