Competitive Strategy

What Is Strategy

By: Michael Porter

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review. This audiobook emphasizes that operational effectiveness is not strategy, that strategy rests on unique activities done by the organization, strategic positioning, the entrepreneurial edge, generic and specific strategies, that sustainable strategic positions require trade offs, that proper fit drives both competitive advantage and sustainability, rediscovering focused strategies, the failure of blurred and straddled strategies, the growth trap, that profitable growth is often niche oriented, the role of leadership in creating and maintaining clear strategies, and that the new entrant and new company advantage is executing clear strategies.

©2010 Michael Porter (P)2010 Christina Brown

Worst performance ever

There were multiple good individual points, but the flow was very hard to follow.

The audio was poor, like the narrator was working from his home or office, not professionally done. Constantly mispronounced 'IKEA.'

awful recording quality.

the constant is good and concise. problem is mainly the awful recording quality, vary inconsistent throughout the book, variable volume, lack of low frequencies, changing reading pace, wired pauses...

Mediocre narration

The book is a classic, although this audiobook is just a summary, the narration was sleep-inducing. It was hard to pay attention.

Read the article!! Do not listen!!

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Recording is not produced well and echos. Narrator's overall rhythm and delivery of well-written sentences is poor and almost impossible to get passed in order to absorb content.

Meh... Not as good as I expected

Unfortunately I can't recommend this program. It was very poorly read. It was very obvious that the narrator or the writing was dry. Although a few good examples of cases were pointed out. it did not bring anything else to help this MBA student.