Strategic Supremacy: How Industry Leaders Create Growth, Wealth, and Power through Spheres of Influence
Author: Richard A. D'Aveni
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ISBN: 0684871807
Publisher: Free Press (04 December, 2001)
Sales Rank: 241,205
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Gotta be smart to like this one!
This book take the "core philosophy" one step further. You gotta be a strategy geek though to really understand it.
If the wonderful book BUILT TO LAST taught you how to work from the core, then this book teaches you how to protect your core.This book is revoultinary because the author really sees things in a new way.
This book has helpt me understand me and my competitors. I understand what the core of my business is, and my competitors, the diffrence comes how we interact and work from the core ........it proves how complex business strategy really is. This book helps you undertand it!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Strategic Supremacy
Both in style and content this is a heavily theoretical, academic work. The concept of spheres of influence does little to advance the discussion beyond what could be achieved using conventional portfolio models and competitive theory. The constant reliance on historical, non business related examples only increases the abstract nature of D'Aveni's argument.D'Aveni is unable to provide examples of companies who have followed the approach he describes and thus his argument is weakened by a lack of coherent or consistent case studies. He is forced to rely on a series of vignettes that attempt to justify small parts of his argument.
As an academic exercise in reviewing similarities across social, military and business history, Strategic Supremacy offers some interesting insights. As a tool for understanding the competitive environment and developing strategies it does not, in my opinion, offer a great deal that current tools cannot provide.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Silly
I did not find this book useful, instructive, or even interesting. There is something about these high-brow academics that just seems to make them incapable of grasping the real world. I'm sorry but this book read like it was written by a junior in business school on the night before it was due.I have read virtually every book there is on business strategy - this one rates as one of the worst.
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