Companies that purposefully set out to excel are remarkably few and far between. The number of those who have a strong, well-thought out strategy for success are even fewer. Based on five years of research and field-testing, Breakout Strategy gives you a “fast track” strategic vision that can push your company to incredible new rates of growth and expansion. Strategy and leadership experts Sydney Finkelstein, Charles Harvey, and Thomas Lawton show how to craft a strategy that fits your business, whether you're a small start-up or an established national or international company. They also give you the tools to adapt that strategy as you grow and expand. Their system features five key initiatives: <ul>
<li>Create a workable vision by understanding the needs and aspirations of a company </li>
<li>Face customers with a value proposition that covers all the important bases </li>
<li>Align what a business does with what the customer truly desires </li>
<li>Balance the people and process sides of business to deliver on promises </li>
<li>Liberate the energies of any strategy's toughest critic-those who work within the business </li>
</ul>
Breakout Strategy puts these initiatives in context by examining how diverse companies achieved breakout growth, including jetBlue, Harley Davidson, and Starbucks. It also sheds light on how a poor strategy can topple a once-successful company off the pedestal of market dominance, such as Krispy Kreme's overly ambitious expansion strategy that stretched the company and the brand too thin. With the systematic approach in Breakout Strategy, you'll be able to travel the fast track to market triumph, leaving your competitors struggling to catch up.

Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth

Business & Money

Finkelstein, Sydney

Harvey, Charles

Lawton, Thomas

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Together the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution form the national museum of Asian art for the U.S. Featuring those gift and purchases honoring the 10th anniversary of the Sackler and the 75th anniversary of the Freer, this sumptuously illustrated volume traces not only the evolution of this country's perception of Asia, but also the evolution of the museum and its role. Essays by Thomas Lawton, former director of both galleries, and Thomas W. Lentz, deputy director, detail the separate but interrelated histories and directions of the two galleries.

Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Lentz, Thomas W.

Arts & Photography

Univ of Washington Pr

Freer: A Legacy of Art

Great book featuring the art collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. 184 color and black and white illustrations of works of art - paintings, sculpture, portraits, decorative arts, Japanese art, Asian art, arts of Korea and China and other works. Includes chronology of the collection and bibliography. Softcover. 272 pages. Measures 9 by 10 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.

FREER: A Legacy of Art

Merrill, Linda

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Book by Thomas Lawton, Linda Merrill

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Extensively illustrated. Glossary. Chronology. Bibliography. Maps. Measures 9x11.5 inches.

Asian Art in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: The Inaugural Gift

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Art Museum

Owyoung, Steven D.

Hargrove, Suzanne

St Louis City Art Museum

Contains two essays which look at the lives of two men that collected Chinese art during the transition from Imperial to Republican China. Tuan-fang was a viceroy during the final years of the Ch'ing dynasty and Dr John C. Ferguson was an American missionary.

A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art

Murphy, Franklin D.

Spencer Museum Of Art/University of Kansas

Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C.

Freed-Hardeman College

Politics & Social Sciences

Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

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