 | Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm |
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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.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5926 in Books
- Published on: 2011-03-01
- Released on: 2011-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 176 pages
Review
"Verne is the guru of fast growth companies. Those who listen GROW and SUCCEED…so listen…or read!"
- Tom Peters
"Verne is the undisputed expert in helping entrepreneurs grow their firms…and now he's brought you his powerful ideas in book form."
- Ted Leonsis, Vice Chair, AOL Owner, Washington Capitals
"This is THE field book for any high-growth business."
- Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Temptations of a CEO, and Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
From the Publisher
Says SelectBooks President Kenzi Sugihara, "Verne has a proven track record and a stellar reputation with top executives across this country. His new book offers the same rock solid guidance to a wider audience."
From the Inside Flap
Is your firm ready for dynamic growth?
"Everyone talks about the 'entrepreneurial glass ceiling' and advises you to 'let go,' 'delegate more,' 'concentrate on alignment,' 'be unique,' 'remain nimble as your company grows,' etc., but no one, until now, ever gives you a practical guide on HOW to achieve all of that and keep your sanity. This practical guide is all about breaking that entrepreneurial glass ceiling and moving to a professionally managed company while retaining the entrepreneurial spirit." Alan Rudy, CEO, Express-Med
Alan Rudy and thousands of other business owners like you have benefited directly from the simple and practical "tools" outlined in Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.
What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? For tycoon John D. Rockefeller it was the consistent application of a set of habits that are as critical today as they were when the oil industry entered it's "disciplined" phase following the wildcatters.
How do you know these tools work?
Over one hundred business leaders have provided testimonials to the power of these tools – see this book's first dozen pages. The tools in this book come from almost two decades of Verne Harnish's work with the CEOs and executive teams of fast growth firms.
As founder and program chair of the world-renowned MIT/Inc./YEO "Birthing of Giants" executive program, Verne has learned how to teach these tools to CEOs who have no patience for anything accept that which they can put to work immediately to solve the challenges that come with building a company. And they want these tools taught simply and quickly.
From Verne'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.
Verne Harnish has a gift for turning complex problems into simple solutions. MASTERING THE ROCKEFELLER HABITS provides easy-to-use tools for making strategically smart decisions and for keeping everyone aligned and accountable to those decisions.
Verne Harnish has a long, influential track record with entrepreneurial and emerging business. After co-founding the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs (ACE) and establishing chapters in universities worldwide, he founded the internationally recognized Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO). As the founder of prestigious MIT/Inc./YEO Executive Program, founder of Gazelles, Inc. and creator of the Master of Business Dynamics program, Verne's mission is to help entrepreneurs of emerging, fast-growth companies increase the value of their firms. Verne Harnish has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Wichita State University. He lives in Virginia with his wife Julie and two sons, Cameron and Cole.
Most helpful customer reviews
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
By Cynthia Driskill
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.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
By Roger Scheumann
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 methodology 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.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By Danielle Mulvey
Verne is truly the "entrepreneur'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 responsibility to create the tangibles 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 entrepreneur can read.
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