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by Patrick Viguerie
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Every business leader wants growth. It is the oxygen of corporate life, the force that attracts talent, excites investors, and creates options for the future. Yet for most large companies, sustained growth remains frustratingly elusive. The standard explanations are familiar: our industry is mature, the market is saturated, the economy is weak, competition is intense. These explanations have one thing in common. They treat growth as something that happens to a company, a force beyond its control
**Author:** Patrick Viguerie, with Sven Smit and Mehrdad Baghai
**Estimated Reading Time:** 45 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why the concept of a "growth industry" is largely a myth - How to find hidden growth pockets in seemingly mature markets - The three cylinders that drive nearly all corporate growth - Why mergers and acquisitions create more value than most people believe - How to build an organization that can pursue granular opportunities at scale
**Who This Book Is For:**
This book is for executives, strategists, investors, and anyone responsible for driving growth in a large organization. It is especially valuable for leaders who feel trapped in slow-growing industries and suspect that opportunities exist but cannot see them clearly. If you have ever wondered why some companies grow while their industries stagnate, this book provides the analytical tools and strategic frameworks to answer that question.
Every business leader wants growth. It is the oxygen of corporate life, the force that attracts talent, excites investors, and creates options for the future. Yet for most large companies, sustained growth remains frustratingly elusive. The standard explanations are familiar: our industry is mature, the market is saturated, the economy is weak, competition is intense. These explanations have one thing in common. They treat growth as something that happens to a company, a force beyond its control. This book challenges that assumption at its foundation. The research behind this book began with a simple observation. When the authors looked at the performance of large companies around the world, they found enormous variation in growth rates, even among companies operating in the same broad industries. Some companies in supposedly stagnant sectors were growing at double-digit rates. Others in supposedly dynamic sectors were barely growing at all. The industry explanation could not account for these differences. This led to a deeper investigation. The authors assembled a database covering hundreds of large companies over multiple years, then disaggregated their performance to understand where growth actually comes from. What they discovered was both simple and profound. Growth is not a property of industries. It is a property of choices. The central finding is that there is no such thing as a growth industry. Most so-called growth industries contain mature segments, and most mature industries contain pockets of rapid growth. The difference between companies that grow and companies that stagnate is not the industry they happen to be in. It is the granularity with which they see their markets and the choices they make about where to compete. This insight has enormous practical implications. If growth is a property of choices rather than industries, then the search for growth must begin with a different set of questions. Instead of asking…
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Get the complete summary in the appGrowth is granular. There are pockets of growth in every industry, even the most mature.
Where you compete matters more than how well you execute. Nearly 80 percent of growth differences come from choices abou
All growth comes from three cylinders: portfolio momentum, M&A, and market share gain.
Portfolio momentum is the largest source of growth. Choose your markets carefully.
Market share gain is the smallest and most difficult source of growth. Pursue it only with a genuine competitive advanta
M&A is more valuable than commonly believed. Build a systematic M&A engine.
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