Growth Gamble: When Business Leaders Should Bet Big on New Businesses-and How They Can Avoid Expensive Failures

Too many companies kiss a lot of frogs in search of a prince. The Growth Gamble shows you how to spot princes at a distance.More and more corporations are experiencing a "growth gap" when the natural growth of their core businesses is not enough. Nearly every company tries to create new legs for its mature portfolio, yet as many as 99 percent of companies fail to create successful new growth platforms.

Based on extensive new research The Growth Gamble is a major new book on the toughest cha...