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I opened this book without much enthusiasm, expecting an informative if rather dry overview of various business models. I was surprised and pleased to find and engaging account of how certain showcased companies have really thought out their place in the economy, community and world and what they've done to ensure their survival and profitability. Adam Webach's insights are peppered throughout and are, well, rather insightful. Even if business strategy is not what you consider a topic for light reading, you may find that this book surpasses that genre. I read all 242 pages in just two sittings and late at night when other books, even ones I enjoy, have put me to sleep.
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SfS:ABM reads more like a thoughtful news magazine article than a book, with the tales of various companies' business models (like Wal-Mart, Dell and Toyota) making for a good flow. These stories really do provide new business strategy frameworks that are attuned to the current world environment, flexible enough to respond to rapid change, and focused on the long view. Even if you don't own your own business, there is useful and thought provoking information here. Information that will make you look at the economy, businesses and consumers in a whole new light. Success does not really depend on one or two things, rather a whole web of them, working together. The recent economic hardships in the US and the world really bring that point home, and success/sustainability is only possible by considering the big picture,not just a part of it. If you bring nothing else away from Werbach's book then make it that.
A must read for company owners and those that make policy in companies, and recommended reading for those who wonder how our economy can survive and flourish in the present uncertain times and for years to come.
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...useful and refreshingly nondoctrinaire book...tells vivid and interlocked stories that stick in the brain. --Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2009
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