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Fast Growth: How to Attain it, How to Sustain it

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Fast Growth gave us some new tools to put together a plan of attack for growth. By using a down-to-earth common-sense approach this book cut through a lot of the gray areas we'd struggled with for years. This was definitely one of the better reads I've had in a long time!

Great book. It provided everything we needed to put together a comprehensive, balanced plan for growth. I highly recommend this book to

everyone!

Unquestionably, fundamentals are the key to sustained business success. In today's dynamic and scattershot corporate environment, buzzwords and instant "must-do" paradigms abound. In "Fast Growth", Dr. Weinzimmer has blown through the confusing clouds of "must do's" spun by hypothetical consultants to deliver a product of strategy fundaments focused on additive value creation. Dr. Weinzimmer doesn't stop there, but continues on past strategic identification through all important steps of its implementation. A beautiful combination of the "WHAT" and the "HOW". Surely a gift for every businessperson - from college students through CEOs.

Although his examples and strategies tend to focus on large corporations, his approach to the issues and challenges of growth are applicaple to the smallest of entreprenaurs. Few books I found that don't have a lot of fluff, and give you usable ideas to implement. There are not many books I have read twice...but I am on my second time around with this one. So have I accomplished fast growth? Not yet but it feels like we're on the right track. Ric Hansen/ Radio Parties- Seattle
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I'll admit, when I saw the 'PhD' after the author's name, I was afraid this would be a bone-dry and obscure piece of academic writing. But it is written with great clarity and is highly readable as well as informative. It's worth reading.

This is the best new business book I've seen in several years. The book was a great read. Every chapter added value. Instead of repackaging old ideas, Weinzimmer provides guidelines that are well thought-out and supported, but radically innovative. His discussions of "external framing" and "aligning a company for fast growth" really challenge a lot of faulty assumptions. The thing that excited me most was his challenge to move from being "market-driven" to being a "market-driver" -- learning to anticipate customer needs and solutions before customers recognize them. Best of all, this author provides easily understandable principles and down-to-earth suggestions for how to put them into action.

This is the best new business book I've seen in several years. The book is a great read. Every chapter adds value. Instead of repackaging old ideas, Weinzimmer provides guidelines that are well thought-out and supported, but radically innovative. His discussions of "external framing" and "aligning a company for fast growth" really challenge a lot of faulty assumptions. The thing that excited me most was his challenge to move from being "market-driven" to being a "market-driver" -- learning to anticipate customer needs and solutions before customers recognize them. Best of all, this author provides easily understandable principles and down-to-earth suggestions for how to put them into action.

In this book, Dr. Weinzimmer points out many of the errors in normal business thinking by providing common sense alternative that will provide value to any company's customers. For example, he says to throw out SWOT analysis, but he provides an alternative that focuses on the customer instead of focusing on the firm. I had this professor for my undergrad capstone project and know that he truly believes in his ideas because he forces us to apply them in our senior consulting project (which uses actual companies as clients). This book allowed us to produce original ideas that will help our client grow their business. This book was even entertaining to read and, depending on the amount of analysis you want to put into it, can be a quick read.

Dr. Weinzimmer provides an excellent alternative to the common views on strategic management. I was a student in his strategic management course during my undergraduate study, and we used this book. Comparing it to other strategy classes, I can honestly say his view comes out on top. I would recommend this to any college student looking for an alternative to what is commonly included in books.