Rules to Break and Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism

by Don Peppers, Martha Rogers

Rule #1: The best measure of success for your business is current sales and profit.
Rule # 2: With the right sales and marketing effort, you can always get more customers.
Rule # 3: Company value is created by offering differentiated products and services.



These three golden rules for running a successful business may look no more dangerous than ordinary common sense, but in truth they’re deadly. With customers sharing their experiences electronically with millions of other customers, the technology of business has changed so radically that the old accepted wisdoms just don’t work any more. In Rules to Break and Laws to Follow, marketing gurus Don Peppers and Martha Rogers challenge you to break the rules and propose a whole new way of thinking about how to create real shareholder value in today’s competitive environment, operating with today’s technologies.



In this revolutionary guidebook, you’ll discover the do’s and don’ts that every company should follow in order to be successful and retain good customers. The audiobook also presents the 12 Laws to Follow—guidelines to ensure that your business can surmount the Crisis of Short-Termism smothering so many businesses today. Throughout, Peppers and Rogers propose various proven tactics and strategies to help you earn and keep the trust of your customers.

Genres: Business

Audio CD

First published December 21, 2007

About the author

Recognized for well over a decade as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world’s premier customer-centered consultancy.

Don’s vision, perspective and thoughtful analysis of global business practices has earned him some significant citations by internationally recognized entities. Business 2.0 Magazine named him one of the 19 “foremost business gurus of our times,” and Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change listed him as one of the 50 “most important living business thinkers” in the world. The Times of London has listed him among its “Top 50 Business Brains,” and the U.K.’s Chartered Institute for Marketing included him in its inaugural listing of the 50 “most influential thinkers in marketing and business today.”

With co-author Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Don has produced a legacy of international bestsellers that have collectively sold more than a million copies in 18 languages. Together, their body of work includes books such as The One to One Future (1993), which BusinessWeek called “one of the bibles of new marketing”; Enterprise One to One (1997), which received a five-star rating from The Wall Street Journal; as well as The One to One Fieldbook (1999), The One to One Manager (1999); and One to One B2B, which made The New York Times business best-seller list within a month of publication in 2001. The authors have also published the first-ever CRM textbook for university use in graduate-level courses, Managing Customer Relationships (April 2004).

With Extreme Trust, they look to the future once again, predicting that rising levels of transparency will require companies to protect the interests of their customers and employees proactively, even when it sometimes costs money in the short term.

Reviews

[Jonathan G]

While the book is a little dated, it gives some great insights into efficiently and effectively running long-term customer centric businesses.