BCG senior partner George Stalk Jr. discusses time-based competition and hardball operational strategies.
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“One that works very well is be faster than your competitors at providing your customers what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. And if a company can do that two or three times faster than its competitors, it'll usually grow two to three times faster. It'll be twice as profitable.”
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