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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN-10
1633691160
ISBN-13
9781633691162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219311403
Product Key Features
Book Title
Founder's Mentality : How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Leadership, Industrial Management, Development / Business Development, Management, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance / General
Publication Year
2016
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Yes
Genre
Business & Economics
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Hardcover
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1 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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2015-049494
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"...filled with examples of how large companies like Apple, Haier, Google, IKEA, and Nike have managed to stay in touch with their core values, even as they've grown massive." -- Inc. ADVANCE PRAISE for The Founder's Mentality : Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev-- "The concept of the 'founder's mentality,' and in particular our 'ownership' culture, has been central to our evolution and growth as a company. Remembering how we became successful in the first place has helped us act boldly and quickly with an insurgent mindset. This book offers great insights for business owners and leaders." Michael Dell, founder and CEO, Dell Inc.-- "As a founder I resonate strongly with the themes of The Founder's Mentality , especially with regard to the overwhelming importance of speed, singular focus, and the ability to invest for the long term." Adrian Gore, founder and CEO, Discovery Group-- "Zook and Allen share invaluable insight as to how to preserve a company's founding purpose, perspective, and energy, while preventing institutionalization from diluting it. Their work has been instrumental in the way my leadership team and I think about our culture, our structure, and our business model." Linda Rottenberg, cofounder and CEO, Endeavor Global-- "In this heavily researched and compelling book, Zook and Allen provide a road map for winning growth. Companies that build and maintain healthy cultures scale with speed and sidestep avoidable stall-out. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur, an investor, or a Fortune 500 manager, you need The Founder's Mentality !" Les Wexner, founder and CEO, L Brands-- "As companies grow, scale and complexity can become a real threat to momentum. Zook and Allen's The Founder's Mentality offers useful insights to help leaders maintain agility in order to sustain their success.", Named an "Editor's Choice" by 800-CEO-READ "...filled with examples of how large companies like Apple, Haier, Google, IKEA, and Nike have managed to stay in touch with their core values, even as they've grown massive." -- Inc. ADVANCE PRAISE for The Founder's Mentality : Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev-- "The concept of the 'founder's mentality,' and in particular our 'ownership' culture, has been central to our evolution and growth as a company. Remembering how we became successful in the first place has helped us act boldly and quickly with an insurgent mindset. This book offers great insights for business owners and leaders." Michael Dell, founder and CEO, Dell Inc.-- "As a founder I resonate strongly with the themes of The Founder's Mentality , especially with regard to the overwhelming importance of speed, singular focus, and the ability to invest for the long term." Adrian Gore, founder and CEO, Discovery Group-- "Zook and Allen share invaluable insight as to how to preserve a company's founding purpose, perspective, and energy, while preventing institutionalization from diluting it. Their work has been instrumental in the way my leadership team and I think about our culture, our structure, and our business model." Linda Rottenberg, cofounder and CEO, Endeavor Global-- "In this heavily researched and compelling book, Zook and Allen provide a road map for winning growth. Companies that build and maintain healthy cultures scale with speed and sidestep avoidable stall-out. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur, an investor, or a Fortune 500 manager, you need The Founder's Mentality !" Les Wexner, founder and CEO, L Brands-- "As companies grow, scale and complexity can become a real threat to momentum. Zook and Allen's The Founder's Mentality offers useful insights to help leaders maintain agility in order to sustain their success.", "The founder mentality mixes passion with chutzpah for success...The result of this mentality is a bonus for shareholders. When Mr. Allen and Mr. Zook looked at shareholder returns in the S&P 500 over 15 years, they found firms with strong founder influence performed 3.1 times better." -- Financial Times "This is a very thoughtful and assured exploration of a key challenge that faces all organisations as they scale that will interest founders and those concerned about the long-term health of their organisations." -- The Irish Times "If you are a business in the early-growth stages or believe that having an "early-growth" mindset will be crucial to helping your business, then The Founder's Mentality will provide the vision that you need to begin planning. The book 's authors conducted extensive research on companies in the U.S. and abroad and use that information to provide basic, down-to-Earth principles that can immediately shift your brain (and that of your employees) into a new way of thinking." -- Small Business Trends (smallbiztrends.com) "The duo Chris Zook and James Allen have delivered a bull's-eye. With The Founders Mentality they have written a book that is both practical and technically sound, six out of six stars...Buy this book." -- Borsen (Denmark) Named an "Editor's Choice" by 800-CEO-READ "...filled with examples of how large companies like Apple, Haier, Google, IKEA, and Nike have managed to stay in touch with their core values, even as they've grown massive." -- Inc. ADVANCE PRAISE for The Founder's Mentality : Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev-- "The concept of the 'founder's mentality,' and in particular our 'ownership' culture, has been central to our evolution and growth as a company. Remembering how we became successful in the first place has helped us act boldly and quickly with an insurgent mindset. This book offers great insights for business owners and leaders." Michael Dell, founder and CEO, Dell Inc.-- "As a founder I resonate strongly with the themes of The Founder's Mentality , especially with regard to the overwhelming importance of speed, singular focus, and the ability to invest for the long term." Adrian Gore, founder and CEO, Discovery Group-- "Zook and Allen share invaluable insight as to how to preserve a company's founding purpose, perspective, and energy, while preventing institutionalization from diluting it. Their work has been instrumental in the way my leadership team and I think about our culture, our structure, and our business model." Linda Rottenberg, cofounder and CEO, Endeavor Global-- "In this heavily researched and compelling book, Zook and Allen provide a road map for winning growth. Companies that build and maintain healthy cultures scale with speed and sidestep avoidable stall-out. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur, an investor, or a Fortune 500 manager, you need The Founder's Mentality !" Les Wexner, founder and CEO, L Brands-- "As companies grow, scale and complexity can become a real threat to momentum. Zook and Allen's The Founder's Mentality offers useful insights to help leaders maintain agility in order to sustain their success.", ADVANCE PRAISE for The Founder's Mentality : Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev-- "The concept of the 'founder's mentality,' and in particular our 'ownership' culture, has been central to our evolution and growth as a company. Remembering how we became successful in the first place has helped us act boldly and quickly with an insurgent mindset. This book offers great insights for business owners and leaders." Michael Dell, founder and CEO, Dell Inc.-- "As a founder I resonate strongly with the themes of The Founder's Mentality , especially with regard to the overwhelming importance of speed, singular focus, and the ability to invest for the long term." Adrian Gore, founder and CEO, Discovery Group-- "Zook and Allen share invaluable insight as to how to preserve a company's founding purpose, perspective, and energy, while preventing institutionalization from diluting it. Their work has been instrumental in the way my leadership team and I think about our culture, our structure, and our business model." Linda Rottenberg, cofounder and CEO, Endeavor Global-- "In this heavily researched and compelling book, Zook and Allen provide a road map for winning growth. Companies that build and maintain healthy cultures scale with speed and sidestep avoidable stall-out. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur, an investor, or a Fortune 500 manager, you need The Founder's Mentality !" Les Wexner, founder and CEO, L Brands-- "As companies grow, scale and complexity can become a real threat to momentum. Zook and Allen's The Founder's Mentality offers useful insights to help leaders maintain agility in order to sustain their success."
Synopsis
Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment--find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core , researched this question, they found that 90 percent of the challenges to growth are internal: increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, and proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. More crucial is their finding that companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow; and that for even the healthiest companies, these crises, if not managed properly, can stifle the company's ability to grow further--and actively lead it into decline., A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing--and Avoiding--the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core , researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external--increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What's more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further--and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a "founder's mentality"--behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder--to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: * An insurgent's clear mission and purpose * An unambiguous owner mindset * A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors' decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder's Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds--not just start-ups--and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader--not only a founder--can instill and leverage a founder's mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth., A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing--and Avoiding--the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core , researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external--increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What's more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further--and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a "founder's mentality"--behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder--to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: - An insurgent's clear mission and purpose - An unambiguous owner mindset - A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors' decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder's Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds--not just start-ups--and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader--not only a founder--can instill and leverage a founder's mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
LC Classification Number
HD2746.Z658 2016
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