The Art of Profitability: Adrian Slywotzky
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From Publishers Weekly
This compact tome from consultant Slywotzky (The Profit Zone) offers 23 business lessons via the tale of a manager’s quest to learn the “art of profitability” from David Zhao, a wise master. It’s an attractive and refreshing concept that taps into the Zen of business. The author cautions readers to “please read only one chapter per week… Think about it. Let it stew.” His advice, centered around the mantra that the path to profitability lies in fully understanding the customer, is valuable- e.g., watch out for cracks in a business’s foundation, because they can quickly lead to a collapse. Slywotzky has tried to make his text seem ancient, even timeless, by featuring the cliché of the wise sage and the eager pupil, and this forced effort may frustrate some readers looking for a quick fix. But those seeking a new alternative to tired business manuals should revel in Zhao’s fable-like teachings.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
Harvard professor Adrian Slywotzky’s ART OF PROFITIBILITY brings a holistic approach to the making of money. Read by actors Scott Mosenson and Jack Ong, who play a young businessman and a famous strategist, the book is really a series of lessons on the many ways companies position their products for profit. Why do we willingly pay so much for Coke in a restaurant and so little in the supermarket? Incorporated into the lessons are books the strategist, David Zhao (Ong), assigns to the Mosenson character to help guide him along the path to profit-making enlightenment. Authors from Isaac Asimov to Sam Walton are mentioned, each having a valuable insight into how profit is achieved. S.E.H. 2003 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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