From the library
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish, 2014
In one paragraph
Verne Harnish's practical guide to growing a business from startup to scale-up. Based on the Rockefeller Habits, it provides tools and techniques for mastering the four major decision areas every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. Used by 80,000+ firms globally.
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Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
People & Relationships
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Key insights
Four decisions: people, strategy, execution, cash. Growth exposes whichever of the four you neglected.
The one-page strategic plan forces compression, and compression is what makes a plan usable.
Meeting rhythm, daily huddle to annual planning, is the mechanism that keeps the plan alive between quarters.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Trying to scale without the right people in right seats
Pursuing too many priorities simultaneously
Expecting execution without accountability systems
Managing by measuring everything
Growing without systematic processes
The same idea, argued differently
Julie Zhuo
Andrew Grove
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Peter Drucker
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Verne Harnish
- Published
- 2014
- Category
- Business
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