Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head--and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings
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品牌: Peter Sheahan
基本信息出版社:William Morrow (2008年4月1日)外文书名:快速反应: 如何从相反的角度思考并取得难以想象的成功精装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0061558958条形码:9780061558955商品尺寸:23.6 x 15.9 x 2.7 cm商品重量:531 g品牌:William MorrowASIN:0061558958商品描述内容简介Emphasizing flexible, counterintuitive decision making, Flip calls for a new way of doing business in an economy where conventional wisdom won't get you anywhere
"Business today requires new perspectives"—this is how Peter Sheahan, one of the youngest and fastest-rising stars on the international consulting and speaking circuit, begins this essential guidebook for succeeding in the twenty-first century. Sheahan reveals how the world's most effective organizations and individuals distinguish themselves from the competition, instead of running with the pack.
InFliphe uncovers what the superstars of modern business have in common: an ability to "flip"—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions. Sheahan explores six major flips:
Action Creates Clarity—to move forward you must act in spite of ambiguity. Your action will create the clarity you're looking for.To keep pace with rising expectations, you can't just be fast, good, or cheap. Instead you must recognize thatFast, Good, Cheap: Pick Three–Then Add Something Extrahas become the new standard in every industry.To develop competitive advantage, you mustAbsolutely, Positively Sweat the Small Stuff.To satisfy customers' needs for engagement and contact—spiritual, emotional, physical—remember that it's not just business,Business Is Personal.To win mass-market success,Find It on the Fringe. The way to separate yourself from the competitive herd is to be courageous and create new market space.To Get Control, Give It Up.You cannot command and control customers or the talented staff needed to reach them. Instead you must empower others to create, dream, and believe for you.Sheahan teaches today's decision makers how to embrace change and successfully operate in an economy that runs on new ideas. Those who take on these lessons will be in position to join other "flipstars" such as Richard Branson, Google, Toyota, Rupert Murdoch, and Apple.
Stick to what you learned in business school at your peril. . . . The small-world economy calls for a new way of doing business. It calls forFlip.
专业书评From Publishers Weekly
Sheahan, consultant and Young Turk of the business world, turns conventional wisdom around to discover marketing techniques effective with today's younger consumers, "who can't go to the toilet without phoning five of their friends." Sheahan puts forth business model-shattering concepts like gaining control by giving it up: allowing customers, networks and rank-and-file employees to improve products through feedback, interaction and inclusiveness. He even "flips"conventional thinking on outsourcing: "It is one thing to make products or do the paperwork for the world cheaply, and it is another entirely to innovate, design and sell goods and services to the world's advanced consumer markets." Sheahan illustrates his points convincingly with examples pulled from the business headlines, though some of his ideas may strike readers as overly dramatic and hard to follow, like putting as much effort into staff satisfaction as into customer satisfaction. Elsewhere, readers will find business fundamentals updated ("absolutely, positively sweat the small stuff" and "you've got to be fast, good, cheap, and more!"), and increasingly familiar lessons on exploiting a niche ("Mass-market success: Find it on the fringe"). Business owners and decision makers trying to capture the hearts and minds of today's younger consumers will find this a helpful guide.
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