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Podcast: HBR On Strategy
Episode: The Key to Sustaining an Enduring Competitive Advantage
Description: It’s a holy grail for many businesses—the search for sustainable competitive advantage. But Chris Zook points out that it’s elusive for most companies. He notes that less than one in 10 companies even achieve a modest level of sustained and profitable growth over a 10-year period on average.
Zook is the former head of Bain’s global strategy practice and coauthor of the book Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change.
In this episode, he shares three key principles that can help your organization find and maintain an enduring competitive advantag...