Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't by Jim Champy

From the Publisher

Jim Champy’s call to action in Outsmart! is filled with the power of ideas, courage, innovation and shared beliefs and values, the culture of any company. This small but mighty handbook is a great gift to leaders of the future.
– Frances Hesselbein, The Conference Board

“Champy’s engaging prose, fascinating success stories, penetrating reflections, and provocative challenges to the status quo capture your full attention from the first page to the last and leave your mind swirling with new thoughts about how to exploit opportunities in a very different world.”
– Ray Stata, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc.

“To outsmart or be outsmarted, that is the question in modern business. Jim Champy has found the answer, in fact many answers, by looking inside amazingly successful companies. And he tells their simple stories in this book that is so delightfully short it can be read on one flight.”
– Dr. Robert “Bob” Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

“In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies that have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested, and reproducible in today’s global marketplace.”
– Denis A. Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc.

“This book shows how to spot opportunities in a world that looks, at times,
like everything is done. Jim has strung together nine pearls that reveal the essenceof entrepreneurship.”
– Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks, Inc.

Author of ReEngineering the Corporation
A New York Times Best Seller & More than 3 Million Copies Sold

Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Outsmart! he’s doing it again. This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of some of today’s best “high velocity” companies, he identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace. You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs.

How to reignite growth by…
• Seeing what others don’t
• Breaking free of mental legacies
• Using all you know
• Changing your frame of reference
• Tapping others’ successes
• Creating order out of chaos
• Simplifying complexity
• Doing everything yourself

there is not much new in management.
but there is a lot new in business.

What People Are Saying

In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies who have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested and reproducible in today's global marketplace. There are a wealth of lessons to be learned and applied from the experiences detailed here—insights that can help create sustainable competitive advantages and make the difference between dramatic growth and stasis.This timely contribution to the business press can be read in a few hours, and its lessons will endure for years.
—Denis Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Sterns & Co., Inc.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0132357771
  
• ISBN-13: 9780132357777
• Format: Hardcover, 188pp
• Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall Books
• Pub. Date: March 2008
• Sales Rank: 41,287

• Table of Contents

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