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Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business Paperback – August 29, 2017

by Joshua Gans (Editor), Sarah Kaplan (Editor)

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Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, edited by Joshua Gans and Sarah Kaplan

Whether big or small, companies incessantly face challenges that can threaten their bottom line and even their survival. These threats keep corporate leaders up at night. What can companies do to stay alive?

Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business features a collection of essays by strategy professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, Canada's #1 business school. The essays take the reader on a tour through some of the most vexing threats to business today, threats that put the very existence of organizations into question. From disruptive innovation, to social media disasters, to mistaken technical investments, to gender discrimination, to misunderstood competition, companies need to be able to anticipate crises and prepare to deal with them head on. Across this collection of essays, readers will get warnings about four mistakes that companies commonly make - failing to appreciate interactions within systems, getting stuck in existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and getting derailed by short-term incentives.

But, Survive and Thrive isn't just about mistakes. Its primary goal is to provide step-by-step actions to help companies stay alive. Executives will find principles and practices for anticipating potential threats and creating responses that permit their businesses to not only survive but thrive.

Editor Joshua S. Gans is a professor of Strategic Management and holds the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management. He is also chief economist of the University of Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab. Gans wrote The Disruption Dilemma, Information Wants to be Shared, and several other books.

Editor Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the Rotman School of Management, is also Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and a professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. She co-wrote the business bestseller Creative Destruction.

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"Eleven Rotman professors tackle some of the most compelling issues in a far-ranging work that covers such topics as health care, gender diversity, corporate reputation management, and innovation. ...a highly focused, elegantly written treatise. Actionable solutions for senior corporate leaders that will also make engaging reading for others interested in business challenges." Kirkus Reviews

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Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, edited by Joshua Gans and Sarah Kaplan

With perhaps surprising regularity, the best and brightest of the corporate world can succumb to forces that result in their failure. Recent history is littered with examples like Blockbuster Video, Nokia, and Lehman Brothers. Dial it back a few more years and we have Circuit City, Borders, WorldCom and Enron. Existential threats to business area real possibility but what actions can managers take to reduce their probability?

In this book, the Strategic Management faculty at the Rotman School turn their diverse lenses to careful studies of business risks in order to identify what threats to businesses are real and how they can be managed. The mantra for the book is that leaders need to be alert and not panicked. While there are always threats that can take out a business, alongside those threats are manageable actions that can be deployed to either pre-empt or confront them.

The threats we examine come from many fronts. There are technological threats that require firms to change to continue to operate at the frontier. There are competitive threats that arise when previous barriers to entry are removed. There are organizational threats that arise when firms find it challenging to re-deploy resources internally. In each case, the chapters of the book lift insights from academic research to show how real the postulated threats are and how businesses have successfully dealt with them.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (August 29, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1457556650
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1457556654
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.47 x 8.5 inches

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