What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous "Mastering a One Page Strategic Plan" process that has been a best-selling article on the web to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business. Lastly, there are case studies demonstrating the validity of Harnish's practical approaches.
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Verne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and chaired for fifteen years EO's premiere CEO program, the "Birthing of Giants," and WEO's "Advanced Business" executive program, both held at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company, Verne has spent the past 29 years educating entrepreneurial teams. The "Growth Guy" syndicated columnist, Verne is also the Venture Columnist for Fortune magazine.
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Verne is truly the "entreprenuer's guru" - he knows our strengths and weaknesses to a prefect tee and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits is "the well" of inspiration for entreprenuers at any stage of their businesses.
What makes Verne the true genius is the fact that all of the ideas and concepts he talks about in the book are tangible resources that you can EFFORTLESSLY implement into your organization. Most books are full of ideas and leave the reader to "re-create the wheel" in order to make the ideas come to life, but Verne knows entrepreneurs well and has removed the burden of responsiblity to create the tanglibles he talks about. I love to read, and have a lot of favorites including Good to Great, Wizard of Ads, Topgrading, The E-Myth and Execution -- but Mastering the Rockefeller Habits is truly the most practical and inspiring book an entreprenuer can read.
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Entrepreneur Of The Year winner - This is a Must-Read!,
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This review is from: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm (Hardcover)
Planning is everything. Our company used to be great at developing plans - we had grand plans, plans we'd worked on for months, and plans for our plans. We were planning experts. But we couldn't implement. Our plans sat in fancy binders and we pulled them out to look at them periodically, felt better because we had them, and couldn't figure out why things weren't happening like we'd planned. Then we read Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. And we found we could actually implement the plans that we learned how to develop from the methods and techniques defined in the book. We now have plans that work. And our company has matured tremendously as an organization from following the book. I strongly recommend that any company, from young start-up to those more mature, read and implement the strategies in this book. It will change your world.
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Habits equal success,
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Read five "how to" books and you'll get five very different ways to "do" something. Only turning those steps into Habits, and the mastering them, as Verne Harnish details in his book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, has worked for me. A growth "guru" in his own right, this book does as excellent job distilling the elements Verne's introduced to hundreds of fast growth companies into a recipe for success. It provides a clear methodolgy for annual and quarterly planning, alligning a management team around Brand Promise and a Big Hairy Audacious Goal and creating rhythm and clear, open communication within an organization. Before reading this book, and then applying Verne's principles, we were stuck in "no man's land". Now, our management team is alligned and we've grown more in the past six months than in the past couple of years combined.
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Executive Summary: There are three barriers to growth common among all growing firms: the need for the executive team to grow as leaders in their abilities to delegate and predict; the need for systems and structures to handle the complexity that comes with growth; and the need to navigate the increasingly tricky market dynamics that mark arrival in a larger marketplace. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
measurable brand promise, quarterly theme, weekly measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Planning Pyramid, Federal Express, Bank Financing, One-Page Strategic Plan, Mastering Growth, Mastering the Art, Mastering Employee Feedback, Right Things, Mkt Cap, Alan Rudy, Right People, Sam Adams, Key Thrusts, Tiger Woods, Boot Camp, Knock Your Socks Off, Things Right, Mastering the Quarterly Theme, Mastering the Use, Jack Stack, Management Accountability Plan New!
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Executive Summary: There are three barriers to growth common among all growing firms: the need for the executive team to grow as leaders in their abilities to delegate and predict; the need for systems and structures to handle the complexity that comes with growth; and the need to navigate the increasingly tricky market dynamics that mark arrival in a larger marketplace. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
measurable brand promise, quarterly theme, weekly measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Planning Pyramid, Federal Express, Bank Financing, One-Page Strategic Plan, Mastering Growth, Mastering the Art, Mastering Employee Feedback, Right Things, Mkt Cap, Alan Rudy, Right People, Sam Adams, Key Thrusts, Tiger Woods, Boot Camp, Knock Your Socks Off, Things Right, Mastering the Quarterly Theme, Mastering the Use, Jack Stack, Management Accountability Plan New!
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- Logical Choice (Silhouette Desire) by Amanda Lee in Front Matter
- Mission to Mars by Michael Collins on page 44
- The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes on page 64
- The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management by Jack Stack on page 97
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