Big Brands Big Trouble

Version: Abridged
Author: Jack Trout
Narrator: Jeff Woodman
Genres: Business, Marketing, Biographies, Business, Biography
Publisher: Penton Overseas
Published In: April 2002
# of Units: 3 CDs
Length: 3 hours
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Overview

Jack Trout, one of the most respected marketing gurus in the world, shows why some of today's biggest brands are having trouble and how to avoid repeating their mistakes. With the help of in-depth case studies chronicling the events leading up to the falls from grace of Sears, Miller Brewing, Xerox, Crest, Burger King, and other past market leaders, he identifies the ten most common mistakes that big brands make, and he develops a set of expert guidelines for marketing managers and executives on how to build, protect, manage, and expand their companies' brands and avoid brand-killing blunders.

"Once again, Jack Trout manages to get to the very heart of what makes companies great and what makes them fail. Unlike so many others, Jack seems to write with the CEO in mind –frank,straightforward, and dead-on."

--Rick Fersch, President and CEO, Eddie Bauer, Inc.

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail"Big Brands, Big Trouble is a crisp indictment of marketing executives who ought to be shouldering more responsibility. It is packed with useful insights about how to manage innovation."

--Clayton Christensen, Author

Reviews (1)

Big Brands Big Trouble

Written by Anonymous on April 24th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Great job identifying the problems with these big brands, not very good development of solutions to the issues. His hindsight was not very inspiring to me.

Author Details

Author Details

Trout, Jack

JACK TROUT is President of Trout & Partners, one of the most prestigious marketing firms in the United States, with offices in twelve countries and a client list that includes AT&T, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Southwest Airlines, and other Fortune 500 companies. Recognized as one of the influential gurus of marketing, Trout was the first to popularize the idea of "positioning" products and ideas in the minds of consumers. A sought-after speaker, he is the author of numerous marketing classics, including the bestselling Differentiate or Die (Wiley), Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, The 22 Immutab