Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy Audiobook (Free)

A Distillation of The Most Important Business Thinking of Our Time

Michael Porter’s groundbreaking suggestions on competition and strategy have unfolded over 3 decades and so are pass on across a dauntingly long list of publications. Every supervisor can name individual bits of his work-competitive advantage, the value string, five forces-but nobody, not Porter himself, offers put the complete puzzle collectively to reveal it as an integrated whole. This lucid, concise audiobook will just that.

about Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Information to Competition and Strategy

Created with Porter’s complete cooperation by Joan Magretta, his previous editor at Harvard Business Critique, this book has an participating summary of Porter’s ideas and an invaluable synthesis of this important body of work, producing apparent how each of Porter’s powerful concepts pertains to others and, most important, towards the practical realities managers encounter.

Modern thinking about competition and strategy starts with Porter’s frameworks. They will be the most widely used used by managers around the world. But as Magretta points out, Porter is frequently misinterpreted and his frameworks misapplied. Magretta’s very own wide-ranging business experience allows her to identify the most frequent of these misconceptions-among them, the deeply held but dangerous perception that competition is about being the very best. Understand Porter and you will see why contending to be the best sparks an inevitable race to underneath.

Understanding Michael Porter will enable all leaders throughout any company t knowledge Porter’s seminal concepts about competition and technique and deploy them to achieve competitive success.