{"product_id":"scaling-up-how-a-few-companies-make-it-and-why-the-rest-dont","title":"Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid-inner\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"ppdFixedGridRightColumn\" class=\"a-fixed-left-grid-col a-col-right\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-id=\"nfw2zl-6ccvkj-5gdra7-j567wk\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid-col a-col-right\" id=\"ppdFixedGridRightColumn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"4vgtxq-78pdsn-kxp11d-u92c92\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1628251840\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescriptionBox\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the International Book Awards for General Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Scaling Up addresses the second half of the venture ball game, something often lost in all the hoopla about incubating disruptive innovation during the first half.  Half-time scores don't matter - it's all about how you finish the game.  So get yourself into Verne's locker room for a great half-time pep talk, and then get yourself out on the field to play a great second half.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Geoffrey Moore, Author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCrossing the Chasm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne delivers more value per page than anyone else in the business!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Henry McGovern, co-founder and Chairman of AmRest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(WSE: EAT)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e not only opened my eyes and helped direct my focus as the new leader of this non-profit organization, but the concept itself literally became our new holistic initiative. With these new skills, we were able grow our organization exponentially and reach out to new funders.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJoshua Troderman, CEO, Shalom Learning\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne Harnish is more committed to helping companies grow than any other person on the planet. Really. He’s also radically practical in his approach and that is reflected throughout this terrific book.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Patrick Lencioni, president, The Table Group; best-selling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Advantage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fast-growing companies — not small ones or big ones — create almost all the jobs and innovation in our economy, and Verne has been an invaluable guide to leaders of such companies, like me. Scaling Up helps us put in place the disciplines critical to building a significant business.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Graham Weston, Chairman and CEO, Rackspace (NYSE: RAX)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne’s tools and techniques have been key to scaling up Benetton to become the #1 international fashion brand in India. They work!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Sanjeev Mohanty, CEO, Benetton India\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine walking into a library and finding one book that captures the ideas of all the books in the library. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is that business book. You will not have to go any farther.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Jack Stack, founder and CEO of SRC Holdings; best-selling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Game of Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Stake in the Outcome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We’ve scaled up our company from a single office near Calgary to 2,000 employees in 165 locations across Western Canada. Verne’s tools and techniques have been critical to helping us drive and manage this growth during my 20 years as CEO — and ultimately to freeing me up as the founder to pursue other interests.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Scott Tannas, founder and Vice Chairman, Western Financial Group;  senator, Canadian Parliament\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scaling up a significant business requires precisely the kind of discipline and focus detailed in Verne’s practical and ‘how-to’ driven book.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e — Scott Farquhar, co-founder and CEO, Atlassian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne Harnish has once again proven he’s the Growth Guy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is packed with the tools to help you bust through the barriers to growth and climb learning curves faster. But don’t let your leadership team carry the load alone — multiply your impact by sharing the book with every employee on your team.” — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLiz Wiseman, best-selling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMultipliers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRookie Smarts\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVerne Harnish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe’s the author of the bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMastering the Rockefeller Habits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Greatest Business Decisions of All Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVerne 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"similarities_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"similarities\" data-csa-c-id=\"f05fdc-26r1jl-v5nlvi-fcpmd9\" data-cel-widget=\"similarities_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"yaxzt2-nyo184-ky4ij0-uknyle\" data-cel-widget=\"sims-consolidated-1_csm_instrumentation_wrapper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" cel_widget_id=\"sims-consolidated-1_csm_instrumentation_wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget pd_rd_w-OyxkH pf_rd_p-6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da pf_rd_r-NC22MC8ZYH4WHD6YDHV9 pd_rd_r-aef32571-4181-4c7a-abac-7617fe13765d pd_rd_wg-wgxb0 c-f\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"amzn1.sym.6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"product-bundle-1\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-painter=\"p13n-desktop-sims-fbt-cards\" data-csa-c-id=\"kkioka-5htnqn-hucmr9-c20ka\" data-cel-widget=\"p13n-desktop-sims-fbt_DPSims_0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" cel_widget_id=\"p13n-desktop-sims-fbt_DPSims_0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bookread","offers":[{"title":"PDF","offer_id":56754623709515,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1031\/1204\/8971\/files\/NatureTravelYoutubeVideoIntro_1000x1000px_6_269adf99-e5de-4648-a96e-cfdffc5325f9.png?v=1773063198","url":"https:\/\/bookread.io\/products\/scaling-up-how-a-few-companies-make-it-and-why-the-rest-dont","provider":"bookread","version":"1.0","type":"link"}