Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company

Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company
by Seth Godin

Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company
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Author: Seth Godin
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2001-12-31
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 263

Book Reviews of Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company

Book Review: Great business insight and advice....
Summary: 4 Stars

Some of the case studies may be a bit dated today but that does not detract from the value in this powerful book from Godin. The core concept of business as evolutionary is fact. None of us can deny that the ever changing environment causes change in how we deliver value for revenue.

Facing business as an evolution is critical if we want to be successful beyond fashion and flash in our endeavors. Continuing to reinvent how we do things is a theme inside this read.

The terminology that Godin defines makes sense and although it hasn't and may never become the way we all see business, the concepts and thoughts behind them are significant.

Godin continually adds value to how to think about what we do. His survival guide, which could double as the title is well worth the time spent reading. As usual his message is as entertaining as it is thought provoking.

You won't be disappointed on the time you spend reading this book if you are concerned about your companies and your own future.

Buy it today. Comments are always invited.

Summary of Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company

It's come to this.

All the confusion and chaos and change and turmoil in our working lives have finally tipped the balance. We now need a new way of doing business.

Most of us view change as a threat, and survival as the goal. Yet we work too hard to consider just getting by as our primary goal. In Survival Is Not Enough, bestselling author Seth Godin provides a groundbreaking new way to organize companies to thrive during times of change. It contains a simple yet revolutionary idea: we can evolve our companies the same way nature evolves a species.

Darwin was right. Evolution is a fundamental force of nature, and Godin demonstrates how this force can be unleashed in any organization. The first step is to eliminate the anti-change reflex that's genetically coded into all of us. Once a company learns to "zoom" (embrace change without pain), it is much more likely to evolve. And a company that evolves can become ever more profitable.

Whether the market is up or down, whether technology is hot or not, in all industries, from retail to tech to restaurants, the organic approach to organizations described in this book will always outperform the competition. As long as our world is unstable, evolving businesses will win.


In Survival Is Not Enough, former Yahoo executive and author of Permission Marketing Seth Godin turns his attention to the predominant issue facing all business today: change. Godin takes the perspective of an evolutionary biologist, borrowing ideas from the likes of Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, and Matt Ridley to formulate his own prescription for business survival, a concept he calls "zooming," which he defines as "stretching your limits without threatening your foundation." The result is a wide-ranging and eclectic menu of useful ideas that just about anyone looking to enhance their career, job satisfaction, and their company's prospects would do well to consider. --Harry C. Edwards
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