Business Blindspots: Replacing Your Company's Entrenched and Outdated Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions With the Realities of Today's Markets [Hardcover]

Benjamin Gilad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1993

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Probus Professional Pub (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155738536X
• ISBN-13: 978-1557385369
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #776,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For more than 25 years, Benjamin Gilad ran war games for market-leading Fortune 500 firms in a variety of industries and on all five continents. He is a former associate professor of strategy at Rutgers University's School of Management and the founder and president of The Academy of Competitive Intelligence. A pioneer of competitive intelligence theory and practice in the United States, he has been called "our CI guru" by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. He holds a PhD in economics, an MBA, and BA in psychology and philosophy. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida and can be reached through his site, www.GiladWarGames.com.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal Work for Commercial Intelligence, May 8, 2008

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Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Blindspots: Replacing Your Company's Entrenched and Outdated Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions With the Realities of Today's Markets (Hardcover)

This is one of a tiny handful of truly useful, insightful, and applicable books in commercial intelligence.

Page 1 has the following line that I continue to cite:

"Top manager's information is invariably either biased, subjective, filtered, or late."

True then, true today, and also applicable in government and in the non-profit world.

The other vitally important quote:

"Using intelligence correctly requires a fundamental change in the way top executives make decisions."

Ben Gilad, Babette Bensoussan, Jan Herring, Leonard Fuld, Mats Bjore, Arno Reuser, and Steve Edwards are the only minds that I consider to be at the pinnacle of the profession. No doubt there are others, but these are the ones that in all of my reading, have never, ever, been displaced from the top rank once I understood their work.

Buy this book used, it is a CLASSIC of enduring value. Buy anything published by this brilliant practitioner.

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