9 Formulas for Business Success: the Science of Strategy

This book's organization follows the Science of Strategy Institute's standard format for teaching strategic principles. The book explains the science of strategy in the terms of nine simple formulas that lead to business success. The book focuses on the specific strategic methods of advancing your position by moving into a new business area. The nine formulas in the book are presented like recipes, describing the ingredients needed and how you put those ingredients together to create a successful enterprise.

Table of Contents:
Strategy 101: The Success Formulas: Know How to Compete
Formula 1: 9 Key Components Formula:Understand Competitive Positions
Formula 2: Find Friends Formula - Success Starts With Information
Formula 3: Observe Opportunities Formula - Competitors Create Your Openings
Formula 4: Recognize Restrictions Formula - Places for Advancing and Defending
Formula 5: Minimize Mistakes Formula - Make Competitive Advances Safely
Formula 6: Undercut Uncertainty Formula - Respond to Changing Conditions
Formula 7: Leverage Leaps Formula - Create Momentum for Dominance
Formula 8: Acquire Awards Formula - Make Victory Pay
Formula 9: Secure Safety Formula - Defend From Competitive Attack

All successful people have one thing in common: they know how to compete. Great competitors are not necessarily great in every aspect of business, but they know what really matters: winning.

What makes great competitors? They have a special genius for strategic thinking. Fortunately, you don’t have to be born a genius to learn strategy. The nine formulas in this book make it easy. They teach you the simple steps to building winning positions.

Strategy isn’t what you think. It isn’t fighting competitors. It is outmaneuvering them. It is building positions that undermine your competitors’ ability to compete and allow you to win easily.

These nine techniques have been proven and refined for over two thousand years in the toughest testing ground of all, where success means life or death.