Dr. Robert “Bob” Metcalfe
General Partner
Polaris Venture Partners

“Champy’s is a beautiful little book, full of delightful stories and handy checklists that teach how to succeed in businesses by really trying.”

“Jim Champy, co-father of corporate reengineering, weaves the wisdom of Santa Anna, Charles Darwin, Peter Drucker, Paul Samuelson, Captain Queeg, and Jim Champy through short stories and charming checklists of business success.”

“To outsmart or be outsmarted, that is the question in modern business.  Jim Champy has found the answer, in fact many answers, by looking inside amazingly successful companies.  And he tells their simple stories in this book that is so delightfully short it can be read on one flight.”

Ray Stata
Chairman of the Board
Analog Devices, Inc.

“In Outsmart, to better understand how to compete and thrive in today’s chaotic, high-risk business world, Champy analyzes the success stories of nine diverse, high-growth companies.  Through the lens of an insightful, celebrated management consultant, Champy abstracts the essentials which underpin the success of the smartest he could identify and then poses questions about how the lessons learned from their experience can be applied more universally to create new businesses or to rejuvenate the performance of established firms.”

“Champy’s engaging prose, fascinating success stories, penetrating reflections and provocative challenges to the status quo capture your full attention from the first page to the last and leave your mind swirling with new thoughts about how to exploit opportunities in a very different world.”

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
Founder and Chairman
Sycamore Networks, Inc.

“This book shows how to spot opportunities in a world that looks, at times, like everything is done.  Jim has strung together nine pearls that reveal the essence of entrepreneurship.”

Frances Hesselbein
Founding President & Chairman
Leader to Leader Institute

"Jim Champy’s call to action in Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't is filled with the power of ideas, courage, innovation and shared beliefs and values, the culture of the company."
 
"This small but mighty handbook is a great gift to leaders of the organization of the future."

Denis A. Bovin
Vice Chairman, Investment Banking
Bear Stearns & Co., Inc.

"At a time of accelerating change for businesses everywhere, it is clear that chaotic conditions represent opportunities for the prepared corporation. In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies who have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested and reproducible in today's global marketplace. There are a wealth of lessons to be learned and applied from the experiences detailed here-insights that can help create sustainable competitive advantages and make the difference between dramatic growth and stasis.This timely contribution to the business press can be read in a few hours, and its lessons will endure for years."