| Description |
214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment--find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that 90 percent of the challenges to growth are internal: increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, and proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. More crucial is their finding that companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow; and that for even the healthiest companies, these crises, if not managed properly, can stifle the company's ability to grow further--and actively lead it into decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a "founder's mentality"--an insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line (behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder)--to restore the speed, focus, and connection to customers, all of which are lost as companies grow. Based on the authors' decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, any leader--not only a founder--can use a founder's mentality to overcome these predictable challenges and set their companies back on a path of sustainable growth. This book shows how, empowering leaders everywhere to control the destiny of their companies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index. |
| Contents |
The founder's mentality: the key to achieving sustainable growth -- The three predictable crises of growth: how great companies lose their way -- Combating overload: how the founder's mentality overcomes the chaos of high growth -- Reversing stall-out: how to rediscover what made you great when growth slows -- Stopping free fall: using the founder's mentality to save a business in rapid decline -- Action plan for leaders: infusing the founder's mentality at all levels of your organization. |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Growth.
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Industrial management.
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Corporate profits.
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Strategic planning.
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Leadership.
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| Added Author |
Allen, James, 1960- author.
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| ISBN |
9781633691162 (hardback) |
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1633691160 (hardback) |
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