George Stalk Jr.
George Stalk, Jr. is a senior adviser to The Boston Consulting Group, a partner with OMBI and an adjunct professor of strategic management for the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto. He has been with BCG's Toronto, Boston, Chicago and Tokyo offices. His professional practice focuses on international and domestic strategies and time-based competition.
George has authored four best-selling books: Competing Against Time, Kaisha: The Japanese Corporation, Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win and Five Future Strategies You Need to Know Now. His articles have been published by many leading publications including Harvard Business Review, where one of his features won the McKinsey Award for being the best of its year. Business Week identified him as one among a new generation of leading management gurus. Consulting magazine named him one of the industry’s Top 25 most influential consultants in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Winning the business war and securing the territory
Four strategies key to outperforming the competition
To alleviate fixed-cost headaches, think variability
In today's uncertain markets, fixed costs are increasingly a liability
No time like bankruptcy for squeezing competitors
If you want to use a competitor's filing to your own business advantage, nice guys finish last
Infinite bandwidth opens infinite business opportunities
Companies that know how to leverage the power of bandwidth are more productive than competitors, find more profitable and efficient ways of conducting business, and even create new businesses, while rivals struggle to catch up