Overview
Innovative concepts, tools, and playbooks for discovering, defining, and taking charge of new market categories, by two of the leaders of the category design movement The most exciting--and often most valuable--companies create, develop and win new categories of products or services. Examples range from the Zamboni company a century ago to OpenAI today. It also includes startups that you may not have heard of yet but will as their categories take off. Category creation and development should be the goal of any company that wants to make a difference. And the way to achieve that is through the discipline of strategic category design. Kevin Maney helped introduce category design in the bestseller Play Bigger. Now, he and Mike Damphousse--an experienced CEO, investor, and marketing executive--share the secrets that they've learned over the past decade, plus new concepts and tools that help companies see and frame new categories. Their advisory firm has worked on strategic category design projects with more than fifty companies and guided workshops for hundreds more at incubators and VC portfolio gatherings. The Category Creation Formula reveals the processes they rely on and the truths about categories that they've uncovered, clearly laid out so any entrepreneur or leadership team can benefit from them, too.
Full Product Details
Author: Mike Damphousse ,
Kevin Maney ,
Chris Brinkley
Publisher: HarperAudio
Imprint: HarperAudio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228695276
Publication Date: 24 February 2026
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""If you want to stand out in the amazing AI era, then 'category design' may be the most valuable new skill you will want to have. It's all in Kevin Maney and Mike Damphousse's new book, The Category Creation Formula."" -- ""John Sculley, chairman, RxAdvance and former Apple CEO""
Author Information
Kevin Maney is a bestselling author and award-winning columnist for Newsweek. Kevin co-authored, with TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadive, the New York Times bestseller The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future...Just Enough. Kevin also wrote the critically praised biography, The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM. His first book was Megamedia Shakeout in 1995, one of the earliest books about all media going digital. Kevin has written for USA Today, Conde Nast Portfolio, Fortune, The Atlantic, and Wired, and has often appeared on radio and television. He lives in New York. Chris is a narrator, voice actor, writer, producer, NCAA Division I broadcaster, radio personality, and emcee. Brinkley penned the recently released MY STORY OF US book and audio series. He is also known as the voice of Penny Reid's Winston Brothers Series, narrating and voicing all six brothers in the popular audiobook collection. Brinkley narrates Reid's Handcrafted Mystery Series and the Smartypants Romance Green Valley Chronicles. Chris portrays Eliot in the critically acclaimed Audible Original SWEET TALK. He is currently one of the top narrators on Kevin Costner's Autio travel app and is heard weekly on the Curio audio journalism app. He has voiced several documentaries on the History Channel (D-Day in HD) and PBS.
