Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company

by Seth Godin

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It's come to this. All the confusion and chaos and change and turmoil in our working lives have finally tipped the balance. We now need a new way of doing business. Most of us view change as a threat, and survival as the goal. Yet we work too hard to consider just getting by as our primary goal. In Survival Is Not Enough, bestselling author Seth Godin provides a groundbreaking new way to organize companies to thrive during times of change. It contains a simple yet revolutionary idea: we can show more evolve our companies the same way nature evolves a species. Darwin was right. Evolution is a fundamental force of nature, and Godin demonstrates how this force can be unleashed in any organization. The first step is to eliminate the anti-change reflex that's genetically coded into all of us. Once a company learns to "zoom" (embrace change without pain), it is much more likely to evolve. And a company that evolves can become ever more profitable. Whether the market is up or down, whether technology is hot or not, in all industries, from retail to tech to restaurants, the organic approach to organizations described in this book will always outperform the competition. As long as our world is unstable, evolving businesses will win. show less

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How to apply evolution theory to managing at the ceo level, including a detailed analogy between genes and memes. Nice try, but just not theoretical enough.
My first out-and-out business/self-improvement book.

I like Seth Godin's enthusiasm. He talks about the same books and authors that I've been reading lately, and its good to hear some practical applications of their writing.
I think this is a solid Godin book. His insight is always beneficial to me. The insight on Corporate evolution is very interesting. I recommend.
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Very entertaining. Good insight into evolutionary biology. Learn to focus on the small changes. I recommend.
"Some Questions:
Why is Charles Darwin writing the foreword for a business book?
Am I going to get laid off?
When is everything going to get back to normal?
Why is there a little z on the bottom of this guy's resume?
If management is so smart, why do so many of the most-admired companies soon get into trouble?
Is the new economy gone forever?
Does work have to be this stressful?
What's the next big thing? Does it matter?
Why do human beings have such big brains?
Is there an alternative to reengineering again?
If firing just one person could save my company from big layoffs later, why don't we do it?
Do some companies deserve to die?"

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Bestselling business book author, entrepreneur, and speaker Seth Godin was born on July 10, 1960. He graduated from Tufts University in 1982 and earned an MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. Godin worked as a brand manager for Spinnaker Software and founded his own book packaging business, followed by the online marketing company show more Yoyodyne. He was a vice president of direct marketing for Yahoo, and in 2006 he launched the popular community website Squidoo. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Business, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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658.406Applied science & technologyManagement & public relationsGeneral managementExecutiveManaging Change
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HD58.8 .G617Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborOrganizational behavior, change and
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