The Well-Timed Strategy (Review and Analysis of Navarro's Book)
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This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Navarro's book "The Well-Timed Strategy" shows how understanding the business cycle and then using it to maximum advantage is an unexploited area of business management expertise. And yet, it makes good sense to use the cycle to gain a competitive advantage over your rivals. In his book, the author presents six areas of corporate activity than can be timed to the general business cycle, allowing you to achieve superior performance. This summary explains each of these areas and what you need to do in order to come out on top.
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When the strategic actions of 180 companies and their senior management teams were analyzed over a five-year study either side of the 2001 recession, it was shown very few firms even attempted to use the ebbs and flows of the general economy to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage. Understanding the business cycle and then using it to maximum advantage is an unexploited area of business management expertise.
This is unusual because the business cycle itself is a known quantity. It is also one of the major determinants of corporate profitability and stock price performance. Therefore, it makes good sense to use the cycle to gain a competitive advantage over your rivals. In practical terms, there are six areas of corporate activity which can and should be timed to the general business cycle:
In a majority of these applications, the smart thing to do is to make countercyclical moves – to zig when everyone else is zagging. This will only pay off if you get your timing right but doing so will allow you to achieve superior performance while all your competitors are hemorrhaging cash and other resources. If you time your moves to the upcoming phase of the business cycle, you position your enterprise to be in an advantageous position when the forecasted market conditions eventuate.
"Our five-year quest yielded many insights, a number of them surprising and quite contrary to conventional wisdom, but one giant conclusion stands above the others: We believe that