Kumar introduces readers to India's preeminent global companies and explains how they differ from their international rivals. Every manager should understand the histories and the business trajectories of these prospective competitors, collaborators, and customers whose names will soon be as...

We're in this together / Douglas M. Lambert and A. Michael Knemeyer -- Building deep supplier relationships / Jeffrey K. Liker and Thomas Y. Choi -- Rapid-fire fulfillment / Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. Lewis, and Jose A.D. Machuca -- Supply chain challenges: building relationships / a conversation...

Pt. 1. The change problem and its solution. Transforming organizations : why firms fail -- Successful change and the force that drives it -- pt. 2. The eight-stage process. Establishing a sense of urgency -- Creating the guiding coalition -- Developing the guiding coalition -- Developing a...

The growth crisis? : dangerous moves beyond the core -- Visualizing the ideal? : the first principle of adjacency growth -- Evaluating adjacency moves? : balancing desire with data -- Orchestrating adjacency moves? : strengthening the core vs. investing in adjacencies -- Executing adjacency...

The hardball manifesto -- Unleash massive and overwhelming force -- Exploit anomalies -- Threaten your competitor's profit sanctuaries -- Take it and make it your own -- Entice your competitor into retreat -- Break compromises -- Hardball M&A -- Changes in the field of play -- The hardball mindset.