9 Formulas for Business Success: The Science of Strategy - Paperback

by Gary J. Gagliardi (Author)

The book explains an easy-to-use strategy for building successful businesses. The author used this system to build his own company, one of the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies in America. The system itself, however, is much older, based on Sun Tzu's competitive principles that have been handed down and practiced for 2,500 years. The nine formulas in this book describe a process of building up competitive positions and advancing them. It starts with collecting the right information. Then learning how to spot opportunities and analyzing them which ones you are best positioned to use. It teaches you how to minimize risks when you committing to a move and how to foresee and respond to the nine situations you are likely to encounter. As you move forward, it teaches you how to use your position to build momentum, maximize your rewards, and protect what you have built. The nine formulas in the book are presented like recipes, describing the ingredients needed from your environment and how you put those ingredients together to create a successful enterprise. You don't have to be born a genius to understand this competitive strategy. The nine formulas in this book make this process much easier. This process is based on making simple comparisons. The right comparisons lead to the right decisions. Your decisions determine your competitive position. It is this position that other people compare with the positions of others. It is their decisions that determine whether or not you are successful.

Author Biography

This book's award-winning author, Gary Gagliardi, is America's leading authority on Sun Tzu's The Art of War. A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, Gary has written over twenty books on strategy. Ten of his books on Sun Tzu's methods have won award recognition in business, self-help, career, sports, philosophy, multicultural, and youth nonfiction categories. Gary began studying Sun Tzu's philosophy over thirty years ago. His understanding of strategy was proven in the business world, where his software company became one of the Inc. 500 fastest-growing companies in America and won numerous business awards. After selling his software company, Gary began writing about and teaching Sun Tzu's strategic philosophy full time. He has spoken all over the world on a variety of topics concerning competition, from modern technology to ancient history. His books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Thai, Korean, Russian, Indonesian, and Spanish. Today lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Rebecca.