
Understanding Michael Porter
The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
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Narrated by:
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Erik Synnestvedt
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Joan Magretta
A Distillation of The Most Important Business Thinking of Our Time
Michael Porter’s groundbreaking ideas on competition and strategy have unfolded over three decades and are spread across a dauntingly long list of publications. Every manager can name individual pieces of his work - competitive advantage, the value chain, five forces - but no one, not even Porter himself, has put the entire puzzle together to reveal it as an integrated whole. This lucid, concise audiobook does just that. Written with Porter’s full cooperation by Joan Magretta, his former editor at Harvard Business Review, this book provides an engaging summary of Porter’s ideas and an invaluable synthesis of this important body of work, making clear how each of Porter’s powerful concepts relates to the others and, most important, to the practical realities managers face.
Modern thinking about competition and strategy begins with Porter’s frameworks. They are the most widely used in practice by managers around the world. But as Magretta points out, Porter is often misunderstood and his frameworks misapplied. Magretta’s own wide-ranging business experience allows her to identify the most common of these misconceptions - among them, the deeply held but dangerous belief that competition is about being the best. Understand Porter and you will see why competing to be the best sparks an inevitable race to the bottom.
Understanding Michael Porter will enable all leaders throughout any organization to grasp Porter’s seminal ideas about competition and strategy and deploy them to achieve competitive success.
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The summary is written by Joan Magenta, a Bain Capital alum who worked directly with Porter. It is accurate to the original Porter material. It even captures the evolution of Porter's insights over the years.
Because of the author's own experience in the business world (as opposed to having only academic business experience) the principles are presented so they can be readily understood by business professionals.
Magretta's experience as an editor shows in her writing style. She writes concisely, precisely, and with humor. I didn't expect to laugh while reading a precis of deep academic work. But I did. Bravo.
If you don't have the time to digest years of Porter, this short work will serve you well.
On the other hand, if you studied Porter, but your "Five Forces" summary is getting rusty, this is a great refresher.
Finally, if your MBA came, not from Harvard Business School, but was awarded by the business school of hard knocks, this will give you insight into an important part of what your MBA-burnished colleagues were supposed to have learned about competition and business strategy. You may even find that Magretta imparts more Porter than your business school associates can recall.
An Excellent Synopsis of Michael Porter
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A fine read - highly recommended
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The narrator does sounds like Steve Martin at times, but that is easily overlooked - I have certainly heard worse.
Top of the shelf business book.
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Excellent Synthesis of Strategy Masterworks
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Great content
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Great synopsis of Porter's work
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Narrator must have had strep throat
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Great breakdown and analysis of Michael Porter’s main points
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A good recap of Porter’s thinking
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The book is good
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