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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 20th Edition
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 20th Edition

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 20th Edition

What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

176 Pages, 5.9 x 8.8

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $22.95)

Publication Date: March 2002

ISBN 9780978774950

Rights: WOR

Gazelles, Inc. (Mar 2002)

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Overview

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous One-Page Strategic Plan 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.

If you are looking for an expanded and updated version of this 2002 best-seller, look for Verne Harnish’s latest title Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0).  In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business. These approaches have been honed from over three decades of advising tens of thousands of CEOs and executives and helping them navigate the increasing complexities (and weight) that come with scaling up a venture. This book is written so everyone - from frontline employees to senior executives - can get aligned in contributing to the growth of a firm. There’s no reason to do it alone, yet many top leaders feel like they are the ones dragging the rest of the organization up the S-curve of growth. This book can help you turn what feels like an anchor into wind at your back — creating a company where the team is engaged; the customers are doing your marketing; and everyone is making money.  To accomplish this, Scaling Up focuses on the four major decision areas every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. The book includes a series of new one-page tools including the updated One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits Checklist™, which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully — many to $1 billion and beyond. Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride. 

Reviews

“Verne is the undisputed expert in helping entrepreneurs grow their firms. Over seven years ago I had him address the firm I merged with AOL; he was the first speaker we invited when we launched what has become AOL University; and now he’s brought you his powerful ideas in book form — the same ideas he’s presented privately to hundreds of CEOs of fast growth firms.”  —Ted Leonsis, Founder & CEO Monumental Sports & Entertainmen

“Verne has been working with growth firms for almost two decades. I’ve found his counsel and tools insightful and helpful to growing firms.”  —Brad Feld, Co-Founder Foundry Group and Co-founder TechStars

“If you are serious about growing your business this information is invaluable, and when utilized ensures that the business and business owner will reap rich rewards.”  —Barbara G. Stanbridge, President 2000-2001 National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)

“This is THE field book for any high-growth business.”  —Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“We’ve seen immediate results from using Verne Harnish’s tools. We have more focus, we are setting priorities and sticking to them, and our execution has improved dramatically. In the first quarter, we increased our utilization rate by 25% and improved our bottom line significantly. This stuff really works!”  —Cynthia Driskill, General Excellence National Winner, Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, Working Woman Magazine and President & CEO, CDG & Associates, Inc

Author Biography

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 180 partners on six continents, Verne Harnish has spent the past three decades helping companies scale up.

He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book
Award for Best General Business book.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits in collaboration with Bloomberg and serves on several boards including chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the Million Dollar Women’s movement. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.