1) The document discusses the need for marketing to shift from a product-driven model to a customer-driven model focused on long-term customer relationships and lifetime value. 2) It outlines metrics that should shift from short-term sales and profitability to long-term customer metrics like customer lifetime value, customer equity, and customer equity share. 3) The document argues that companies must reinvent themselves to be truly customer-centric by changing organizational culture, metrics, functions, and how they view customers in order to build long-term competitive advantage.