About 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and quickly apply.Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy advisor, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher, Hamilton Helmer develops from first principles a practical theory of Strategy rooted in the notion of Power, those conditions which create the potential for persistent differential returns.Using rich real-world examples, Helmer rigorously characterizes exactly what your business must achieve to create Power. And create Power it must, for without it your business is at risk. He explains why invention always comes first and then develops the Power Progression to enable you to target when your Power must be in the origination, take-off or stability phases of your business. Every business faces a do-or-die strategy a crux directional choice made amidst swirling uncertainty. To get this right you need at your fingertips a real-time strategy compass to discern your true north. 7 Powers is that compass.
- Complete Title: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 210
- Publication Time: October 27, 2016
- Publisher: Hamilton Helmer
- ISBN: 0998116319
- ISBN13: 9780998116310
About Hamilton Wright Helmer
Hamilton Wright Helmer
Hamilton Helmer has spent his career as a practicing business strategist. At Helmer & Associates (later Deep Strategy), a strategy consulting firm he founded, he has led over 200 strategy projects with major clients such as Adobe Systems, Agilent Technologies, Coursera, Hewlett-Packard, John Hancock Mutual Life, Mentor Graphics, Netflix, Raychem, and Spotify. In the last two decades he has also utilized his Strategy concepts as an active equity investor and is currently Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder Strategy Capital. Prior to Helmer & Associates he was employed at Bain & Company. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College. Mr. Helmer just retired as Chairman of the Board of American Science and Engineering (NASDAQ: ASEI) and currently teaches Business Strategy in the Economics Department of Stanford University.
Reviews 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Zhou Fang
I really think this book is overrated. A lot of people in Silicon Valley seem to love this book and it’s highly recommended by Reed Hastings, who wrote the foreword. If you find it too cumbersome to r…
Cedric Chin
Quite possibly the only book about business strategy you ever need to read. This is miles better, and more practical than Rumelt or Porter, and it resolves for me some of the edge cases with Christens…
Joshua Auerbach
This book is a good starting point to think about business strategy, but has a few flaws and over-generalizations. My biggest personal annoyance that pervades the book is a conflicting view on markets…
Vikrama Dhiman
Mind-blowing Simply, the best book on Strategy and strategy. Pick it up. Read it once a year before the yearly planning…
Quan Truong
Reading this short book is more helpful than 3 other lengthy strategy books that I read. Short and practical, focus on the content, not the author – the quality standard of a business book…
Denis Vasilev
Книга про стратегию – с позиции способов получения устойчивых конкурентных преимуществ. Адекватно, но нового…
Andre Kubota
7 powers SummaryThe author, Hamilton Helmer is a consultant and portfolio manager that created this framework to analyze the companies he invested in. To me it seems like a gathering of some ideas and…
Renato Franco
Este livro é um excelente guia para entender estratégia competitiva por novas perspectivas, mais poderosas (ao meu ver) do que o clássico de Michael Porter.Alguns dos 7 Powers são semelhantes a ou…
Ben Brooks
Some good factors to think about:- A lasting business needs to offer significant benefits to the consumer and put barriers in place for competitors. – Invention spurs Power. Competitor success (i.e. t…