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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers by: Keith R. Mcfarland  List Price: $27.50 Your Price: $18.15 You Save: $9.35 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.401 EAN: 9780307352187 ISBN: 0307352188 Label: Crown Business Manufacturer: Crown Business Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 15, 2008 Publisher: Crown Business Release Date: January 15, 2008 Studio: Crown Business Sales Rank: 8945 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate—from small startup to industry leader. Encouraged by experts such as business legend Peter Drucker and Good to Great author Jim Collins to identify the drivers that enable a company to push past the entrepreneurial phase, McFarland spent five years building and analyzing the world’s largest growth-company performance database and interviewing more than 1,500 growth-company executives on four continents. His goal was simple: to identify the secrets of breakthrough. The Breakthrough Company is the result. Winnowing a study pool of more than 7,000 companies down to nine that have made the transition to major-player status, McFarland highlights real-world tools and myth-busting insights that can be used by anyone wanting his or her business to join this exclusive circle. Among the book’s takeaways: • Common wisdom holds that the founders and core entrepreneurial leaders of a company must step aside for the business to reach the next level. Not true—as long as founders “crown the company” instead of themselves. • It’s not reckless to make ever-escalating bets on your company’s future, even going nose to nose with competitors many times your size. In fact, it turns out that the only safety comes in constantly upping the ante in exactly this way. • A Business Bermuda Triangle does exist, gobbling up companies on the verge of breakthrough. Presented here are three ways to navigate this potentially deadly hazard successfully. • However good you are—or think you are—you can’t do it alone. Learn how to surround your company with networks of outside resources, aka “scaffolding,” and how to enlist the aid of “insultants”—people who are willing to question a firm’s existing assumptions and ways of doing business. With powerful and specific action steps concluding each chapter—and invaluable advice on virtually every page from business leaders who’ve taken their companies to extraordinary levels of growth and profitability—The Breakthrough Company is one of the most provocative, inspiring, and instructive business books you’ll ever read. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - More Useful than "Good to Great" by ColinsWhile Collin's "Good to Great" is a great book "The Breakthrough Company" is much better and more practical for most business people. It deals with the practical success criteria for "start-up" and small to medium firms. I have read it twice and already given away about a dozen copies. Rating: - How to Grow and Grow and GrowWhile my own book focuses on dramatically increasing your visibility, Keith's book targets dramatically increasing that... and everything else! Don't stay small when you don't have to: let the wisdom within Keith's pages show you how to grow and grow and grow. Rating: - The Good to Great book for small businessesBreakthrough Companies is a great book that is the "Good to Great" book for small businesses. It talks about how small businesses became breakthrough companies by taking actions. I highly recommend this book Here are the major things Keith talks about in his book Crowning the company Build something bigger than themselves. A Breakthrough company worries first about the company before any one person. They use the following ... Read More Rating: - Nice focus on small->large transition, but question if the attributes caused successThis book details a set of transitions in philosophy for companies as they move from being fast-growing startups to much larger companies ($100+ million revenue). Similar to Collins' Good to Great, this is a detailed analysis of a number of successful companies in that range, along with some deep studies of what worked for them. There are a bunch of great stories about what worked, as well as contrasts with specific comparison companies that it didn't work for. I recommend reading it, if only for the ... Read More Rating: - Vision is the Key to Breakthrough!The Breakthrough Company goes where Good to Great left off. Asking the question: How does a company become a Breakthrough Company. An excellent book for anyone to read who is trying to build a company which will turn into a mega corporation. Browse for similar items by category:
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