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BEYOND THE CORE

Expand your growth opportunities beyond your core strengths.

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What Will You Learn?

Expand into adjacencies without abandoning your profitable core – Beyond the Core by Zook masters growth through smart expansion. This comprehensive adjacency strategy summary and expansion methods explain: • Adjacency Types - Choose from new geographies, channels, value chain, or products • Core Protection - Never weaken your foundation while expanding • Repeatability Test - Build expansion capabilities you can use multiple times • Failure Pattern Recognition - Learn why 75% of growth initiatives fail What most summaries miss: Zook's "One Step Rule"—successful adjacencies are only one step from your core. Launch Click.Apply.Grow™ adjacency: Map all possible adjacencies. Pick closest to core. Test small before scaling. Companies mastering adjacency expansion achieve 2x sustainable growth versus diversifiers. Expand smartly. Core first.

About the Author

Chris Zook is Partner at Bain & Company Amsterdam who discovered why 90% of companies fail to achieve profitable growth.

Co-head of Global Strategy Practice for 15 years, authored six Harvard Business Review Press books including Washington Post bestseller The Founder's Mentality. Repeatability named top CEO read by Fortune. Speaker at World Economic Forum and Forbes CEO Conference. Economics degrees from Williams, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard.

What sets Zook apart: His research on 2,000+ companies revealed the hidden assets within organizations that fuel sustainable growth without abandoning core strengths.

Helps companies find profitable growth in turbulent markets. Firms using Zook's repeatability model achieve 3x more sustainable growth than diversification-focused competitors.

The strategist proving focus beats diversification every time.

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