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Product: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Description: The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.

The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”

Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
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Product: Lean Enterprise: A One Step At A Time Entrepreneur's Management Guide To Building and Continuously Scaling Up Your Business: Boost Productivity and Achieve Goals By Implementing Six Sigma And Kanban
Description: Uncover the power of lean management and take your business to the next level!

Are you an entrepreneur or manager, and you want to scale your business and boost productivity? Looking for a real, practical step-by-step strategy for creating positive change and supercharging your leadership skills? Then this is the book for you!

Inside this book, you’ll uncover the secrets of the Six Sigma and Kanban project management systems, and how you can implement these revolutionary formulas to scale your business and take your company to the next level.

Packed with a wealth of advice on team management, setting and achieving goals, and how you can streamline and refine your company’s operation to dramatically improve your productivity, this book is your all-in-one guide to the world of lean project management.

Here’s what you’ll discover inside:

What Is Lean Management and How Can It Help?
Powerful Tips For Boosting Your Leadership Skills
Step-By-Step Instructions For Creating a Lean System That Works For You
8 Common Lean Mistakes To Avoid
How To Set (And Achieve) Your Company Goals
Must-Know Methodology, Concepts, and Tools For Streamlining Your Business
Four Most Important Letters In Lean
Tips And Tricks For Implementing Kanban
And So Much More!

No matter your company or what it specializes in, the lean system is a powerful and proven way of scaling your business, improving productivity, and generating results! Discover the secrets of Six Sigma and Kanban, create the right work environment, supercharge your leadership skills, and much more.

Buy now to discover how to get started with lean management today!
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Product: Scaling-Up Corporate Startups: Turn innovation concepts into business impact
Description: This book focuses on one question: How can large companies generate business impact from non-incremental innovation?

The situation seems paradox. Winning in non-incremental innovation should be the domain of large corporates, not of greenfield startups. Yet, 7 out of 8 corporate startups do not generate business impact . And the media is full of stories that greenfield startups are attacking and even ‘disrupting’ incumbents.

To stack the odds for success, large corporates have tried to emulate the methods and approaches of greenfield startups. They set up explorative innovation units (called Innovation Centers, Incubators, Accelerators, Digital Labs, Innovation Outposts, Fab Labs, Maker Spaces, etc.). Around the globe there are more than 600 of these. But returns on innovation are decreasing – despite increasing investments into innovation .

So apparently there is a problem.

We think that the root cause – and hence the Archimedean point for solving the problem –lies in one part of the end-to-end innovation process. Corporates need to think one step further, beyond their explorative innovation units. They need to actively shape the phase that comes after a promising innovation concept has been found and validated.

We call this phase Scaling-Up. In this phase, business impact is generated. Success in this phase requires an orchestrated interplay between the corporate startup and the core organization, built on a solid methodology.

The book is written for Top Managers and members of the Board who are concerned about the business impact that their innovation investments create. It is also written for corporate practitioners working in explorative innovation units, in Corporate Innovation Management, Corporate Research, Group Technology, Corporate Strategy, Corporate In-house Consulting or in comparable functions. And we also had Senior Management from Business Units (BUs) in mind when we wrote this book.

With excellence in Scaling-Up, a corporate startup has the entrepreneurial momentum of a small company and (by leveraging the assets of its parent company) an ‘unfair advantage’ in the innovation race. With every successful corporate scaleup, the company not only increases growth, EBIT and market cap – it also actively reshapes its core business for tomorrow. Without excellence in Scaling-Up, validated innovation concepts will not generate business impact. In other words, if a company is not good in Scaling-Up, all work done in the Ideation and Validation phases is just a costly hobby.

This book draws on our extensive consulting experience in this space and is co-written with our clients. We assembled a cross-industry ‘Peer Group’ of well-known, large European companies – all of them widely seen as good innovators or even innovation leaders. In the process, the group members analyzed relevant research, shared their Good Practices, developed and validated methodological frameworks and helped each other in Peer Coaching.

The reader of this book can benefit from the Peer Group’s work and findings. Some readers might be more interested in ‘how-to’ methods, others more in practical experiences. This book contains both. It is organized in four parts

Part 1 – ‘UNDERSTAND’ provides the thinking framework for excellence in Scaling-up.
Part 2 – ‘PREPARE’ takes a closer look into the phase that precedes Scaling-Up.
Part 3 – ‘SCALING-UP’ presents the framework for effective Scaling-Up that the Peer Group has co-created.
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Product: Lean Analytics: A One Step At A Time Entrepreneur's Guide to Scaling Up Your Small Startup Business: Boost Productivity and Measure Ony What Really Matters By Using Data Science The Agile Way
Description: Set Your Business Up For Success With Lean Analytics - Here's
How!

Do you want your customers to LOVE
your products and services?

Do you want to achieve your business goals with maximal
success and minimal costs?

Do you want to help your startup grow with smart and
innovative business strategies?

For this, you need to measure what matters -
you need Lean Analytics.

You may have heard the word
Lean before - after all, this project management philosophy is used by all of today's successful
entrepreneurs! Lean is all about creating maximal value for your customers, minimizing waste,
and making business processes flow smoothly.

Lean Analytics is a key part of the
Lean approach. With Lean Analytics, you will:

Know EXACTLY what your
customers want
Create a Minimum Viable Product as quickly as possible
Use
data to identify the best business strategies

Without Lean Analytics, you'd quickly
get lost in a sea of data and ideas.

In short, Lean Analytics lets you focus
on what really matters.

Sounds good?
Then grab this beginner-friendly introduction to Lean Analytics before your competitors
do!

This book will help you:

Understand Lean and related
approaches such as Six Sigma
Adopt the Lean mindset to boost your
leadership skills
Use Lean Analytics to measure the things that
matter
Boost your productivity by using Lean project
management
Achieve the success you
deserve!

No matter if you're seeking to optimize your small
business or you're building a new one from scratch, this book will help you get real results!

Scroll up, click the "Buy Now" button and Get Your Copy Now!
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Product: Principles: Life and Work
Description: #1 New York Times Bestseller

“Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.

In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.

Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and “the philosopher king of the financial universe” (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.
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Product: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling For Less by Robert I. Sutton (February 04,2014)
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Product: Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business
Description: A definitive book for any CEO - first time or otherwise - of a high-growth company.

While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't - and they're often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general.

Author Matt Blumberg, a technology and marketing entrepreneur, knows this all too well. Back in 1999, he started a company called Return Path, which later became the driving force behind the creation of his blog, OnlyOnce - because "you're only a first time CEO once."

Now, more than a decade later, he's written Startup CEO. As the fifth in the StartUp Revolution series, this reliable resource is based on Blumberg's experience as a startup CEO and covers a number of issues he's faced over the dozen years he's been a CEO.

Engaging and informative, this book is essential reading for any, and every, CEO.
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Product: Scaling Up - Beginner‘s Guide To Scaling Your Business: Economies of Scale - Knowing the right steps for your business startup
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Product: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Brand: Portfolio
Color: White
PORTFOLIO
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Product: The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success
Brand: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Greenleaf Book Group Press
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Product: Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar
Brand: Wiley
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Product: Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
Brand: Gazelles, Inc.
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Product: Scaling Up (Dominando los Hábitos de Rockefeller 2.0): Cómo es que Algunas Compañías lo Logran…y Por qué las Demás No (Spanish Edition)
Brand: Gazelles Inc.
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Product: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less
Brand: Currency
Color: Grey
Crown Business
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Product: Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong (The MIT Press)
Brand: The MIT Press
Color: White
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Product: How to Start a Business: An Essential Guide to Starting a Small Business from Scratch and Going from Business Idea and Plan to Scaling Up and Hiring Employees
Brand: Independently Published
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