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Every president of a smaller company shares the same ambition: to get larger. But growth is not simply a matter of scale it requires a fundamental shift in how a company thinks and operates. This book argues that smaller companies are not merely shrunken versions of large ones; they are fundamentally different organisms, each with their own logic, strengths, and blind spots.
Through a series of sharp contrasts, the book illuminates the divide between larger and smaller companies. Where larger companies chase volume with low prices, smaller companies survive on high prices and low volume. Where larger companies are driven by customer needs and management consensus, smaller companies are guided by a founder's intuition and an inward focus on their legacy.
Larger companies profit from repetition and fixed costs; smaller companies speculate through flexibility. Perhaps most tellingly, larger companies exist to generate profit for shareholders, founders of smaller companies are driven by a desire to create a legacy making profit is a means, not an end.
Yet neither model, as currently practiced, is sustainable. The central challenge of the book is therefore not how smaller companies work must do to grow, but what they must do to make that leap.
The answer lies in three disciplined steps: first, identify a niche that is underperforming or operating at a loss; second, deploy the company's distinctive competence to develop a product or service that solves that problem; and third, find a channel to bring that solution to other companies facing the same challenge.
In this framework, a smaller company's limitations become its greatest asset - its inability to absorb losses forces it to innovate in ways that larger, more comfortable competitors never would.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Every president of a smaller company shares the same ambition: to get larger. But growth is not simply a matter of scale it requires a fundamental shift in how a company thinks and operates. This book argues that smaller companies are not merely shrunken versions of large ones; they are fundamentally different organisms, each with their own logic, strengths, and blind spots.Through a series of sharp contrasts, the book illuminates the divide between larger and smaller companies. Where larger companies chase volume with low prices, smaller companies survive on high prices and low volume. Where larger companies are driven by customer needs and management consensus, smaller companies are guided by a founder's intuition and an inward focus on their legacy. Larger companies profit from repetition and fixed costs; smaller companies speculate through flexibility. Perhaps most tellingly, larger companies exist to generate profit for shareholders, founders of smaller companies are driven by a desire to create a legacy making profit is a means, not an end.Yet neither model, as currently practiced, is sustainable. The central challenge of the book is therefore not how smaller companies work must do to grow, but what they must do to make that leap.The answer lies in three disciplined steps: first, identify a niche that is underperforming or operating at a loss; second, deploy the company's distinctive competence to develop a product or service that solves that problem; and third, find a channel to bring that solution to other companies facing the same challenge.In this framework, a smaller company's limitations become its greatest asset - its inability to absorb losses forces it to innovate in ways that larger, more comfortable competitors never would. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798295739750
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