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  • What Business Are You In?

  • Written by: Ted Levitt
  • Narrated by: Deaver Brown
  • Length: 46 mins
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This Harvard Business Review (HBR) article focuses on Ted Levitt’s classic question, "What Business Are You In?" and what are you doing about it? He provides the classic example of why the Canadian railroads succeeded in the mid-20th century while the American ones faltered. The Canadians identified their business as transportation unlike the Americans who narrowly focused on being railroads. Therefore, the Canadians expanded into air and bus travel, as well as hotels and resorts for people to stay at on their trips. The Americans stayed focused on their railroads, missed these other opportunities, and saw much of their base business wither away.

This audiobook includes six best-selling articles by HBS professor Ted Levitt: "Marketing Myopia", "After the Sale is Over", "Marketing Success through Differentiation of Anything", "Production Line Approach to Service", "The Globalization Approach to Markets", and "Creativity Is Not Enough".
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Customers Come First.

Ted Levitt was a Harvard Professor and ahead of his time when it comes to his perception of sales versus marketing. He had a Customer Centric focus where we need to understand what pain point(s) matter most to the customer and work backwards to design a solution. This is a 360 turn from most companies who build a product first and try and find a customer to use it.

This is a short book but one can gain a lot of insight by following the simple principles.

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