Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It - Softcover

Ries, Al

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9780887308635: Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It

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ISBN 10: 0887308635 ISBN 13: 9780887308635

Publisher: Collins, 1997

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How can IBM have $65 billion in revenues and still lose money? Although PepsiCo has nearly twice the sales and assets of Coca-Cola, Coke's stock is worth more than twice as much. Again and again, the financial pages report similar stories. In plain and effective language, internationally known marketing expert and bestselling author Al Ries explains why IBM, PepsiCo and other revenue-rich companies often fail to perform on the balance sheet. His common-sense approach to business management focuses on keeping a business doing what it does best, eschewing the temptation to diversify into unrelated enterprises.

Using real-world examples, Ries shows that in industry after industry, it is the companies that resist diversification, and focus instead on owning a category in consumers' minds, that dominate their markets. He offers solid guidance to get companies back on target, explaining how to get focused and how to stay focused. His no-nonsense advice lays out a workable blueprint for any company's evolution that can increase market share and shareholder value while keeping an eye squarely on the future.

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From the Publisher:

The co-author of the iconoclastic bestsellers The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and Marketing Warfare now takes on management in a revolutionary book that, using examples of some of America's top known companies, shows how the truest, surest path to success comes from focusing a corporation on what it does best.

About the Author:

Al Ries and his daughter and partner, Laura Ries, are two of the world's best-known marketing consultants. Their Atlanta firm, Ries & Ries, works with many Fortune 500 companies. They are the authors of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and, most recently, The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR, which was a Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller.

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