Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

Winner of the International Book Awards for General Business

Winner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction Business

This is the first major revision (2022) to Scaling Up since it was published in 2014. With over 500,000 copies in print, it's become the standard for scaling any for-purpose or for-profit organization. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his contributors share practical tools and techniques for scaling an industry dominating business while enjoying the journey. This book is written so everyone — from frontline employees to senior executives — can get aligned in contributing to the growth of the firm. Scaling Up focuses on the four major decisions every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution and Cash and includes a series of new One-Page tools, including the often copied One-Page Strategic Plan and Rockefeller Habits Execution Checklist™. More than 80,000 firms around the globe have used these tools to scale their organizations successfully. You can too!

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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

Winner of the International Book Awards for General Business

Winner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction Business

This is the first major revision (2022) to Scaling Up since it was published in 2014. With over 500,000 copies in print, it's become the standard for scaling any for-purpose or for-profit organization. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his contributors share practical tools and techniques for scaling an industry dominating business while enjoying the journey. This book is written so everyone — from frontline employees to senior executives — can get aligned in contributing to the growth of the firm. Scaling Up focuses on the four major decisions every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution and Cash and includes a series of new One-Page tools, including the often copied One-Page Strategic Plan and Rockefeller Habits Execution Checklist™. More than 80,000 firms around the globe have used these tools to scale their organizations successfully. You can too!

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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

by Verne Harnish
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

by Verne Harnish

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Winner of the International Book Awards for General Business

Winner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction Business

This is the first major revision (2022) to Scaling Up since it was published in 2014. With over 500,000 copies in print, it's become the standard for scaling any for-purpose or for-profit organization. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his contributors share practical tools and techniques for scaling an industry dominating business while enjoying the journey. This book is written so everyone — from frontline employees to senior executives — can get aligned in contributing to the growth of the firm. Scaling Up focuses on the four major decisions every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution and Cash and includes a series of new One-Page tools, including the often copied One-Page Strategic Plan and Rockefeller Habits Execution Checklist™. More than 80,000 firms around the globe have used these tools to scale their organizations successfully. You can too!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780986019555
Publisher: Gazelles, Inc.
Publication date: 10/11/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 575,920
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO's premiere CEO program, the "Birthing of Giants" held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 180 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping companies scale up.

He's the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits in collaboration with Bloomberg and serves on several boards including chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the Million Dollar Women's movement. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Table of Contents

THE INTRODUCTION Tools for Scaling Up
THE OVERVIEW People, Strategy, Execution, Cash
THE BARRIERS Leadership, Infrastructure, and Marketing

SCALING UP PEOPLE
Introduction
THE LEADERS The FACe and PACe of the Company
THE TEAM Attracting, Hiring and Coaching
THE CORE Values, Purpose, and Competencies

SCALING UP STRATEGY
Introduction
THE 7 STRATA OF STRATEGY The Framework for Dominating Your Industry
THE ONE-PAGE STRATEGIC PLAN The Tool for Strategic Planning
THE PLANNING PROCESS Preparing and Leading

SCALING UP EXECUTION
Introduction
THE PRIORITY Focus, Finish Lines, and Fun
THE DATA Powering Prediction
THE MEETING RHYTHM The Heartbeat of the Organization

SCALING UP CASH
Introduction
THE CASH Accelerating Cash Flow
THE POWER OF ONE 7 Key Financial Levers
THE EXIT 4 Keys to Maximizing Valuation

NEXT STEPS 5 Things to Do Now
APPENDIX Top 12 Business Books

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The idea of guiding a company from the small tide pools to the big seas of business can be exhilarating, but also daunting without a detailed set of directions. Scaling Up provides those directions, along with a remarkably detailed map for how to get there safe and happy.”
— Robert B. Cialdini
best-selling author of Influence


“Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up is one of the finest business books you'll ever read. We are all searching for new ways to build more effective teams, startups, and organizations that will stand the test of time. Through compelling research, business parables, vivid examples, deep research, Verne shares practical advice on the toughest challenge organizations confront: how to spread success from a few small pockets of an organization to its entire fabric. Whether you're an entrepreneur who wants to scale up, a CEO who wants to take his business to the next level, or a non-profit executive who wants to leave a legacy, this book will be life-changing.”
— Tan Yinglan
Author of Way of the VC – Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board,
Chinnovation – How Chinese Innovators are Changing the World and
New Venture Creation - Entrepreneurship For The 21st Century - An Asian Perspective

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