Download or read book Inside America s Fastest Growing Companies written by M. John Storey and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1989-01-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover techniques for growing your business or division more rapidly by drawing on the experience of other fast-growth companies and entrepreneurs. This book focuses on those specific techniques employed by entrepreneurial leaders to unlock that growth. The author's research and interviews with these leaders have resulted in valuable insights into how they achieved growth rates of 100% or more per year. Includes candid observations of business leaders on their successes and failures, that are interesting to read and applicable to most any business.
Download or read book The Inc 500 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Fastest Growing Companies written by Individual Investors Group Staff and published by Crown. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inc 500 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Inc. 500, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States according to "Inc." magazine. Note that ranking is based solely on percentage growth of revenue over a five-year period and that each year's list is released in October. Lists the requirements for making the list. Offers access to the current list, as well as previous lists, application information, and related articles. Links to the electronic version of the magazine and a site search engine.
Download or read book Inc 500 written by Jane Berentson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silicon Valley Way written by Elton B. Sherwin and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you like to have an entry into the mind-set of the most powerful and successful business leaders of today—men and women who have amassed fortunes and built empires by knowing which questions to ask? In this ground-breaking book, insiderElton Sherwindiscloses the decision-making secrets that have attracted a full third of America's venture capital to Silicon Valley and shows how any manager can apply those techniques for entrepreneurial success in the 21st century. About the Author Elton B. Sherwin, Jr.,is a successful venture capitalist and the managing director of Ridgewood Capital in Palo Alto, California. Mr. Sherwin invests in Internet start-ups, often co-investing with angel investors. Prior to joining Ridgewood, he ran the Silicon Valley office of Motorola Ventures.
Download or read book The Silicon Valley Way written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inc 500 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hope Is Not a Plan written by Doug Callahan and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOPE SHOULD NOT BE PART OF YOUR BUSINESS PLAN. Too many business owners--either consciously or unconsciously--rely on hope to achieve success. But hope is not a plan. Fortunately, there is a reliable recipe that business leaders can follow, one that dependably delivers winning results for all kinds of businesses. Doug Callahan knows that recipe. He has used it to build one of the fastest growing companies in America and to win top entrepreneurial and industry awards. And now he wants to share that recipe with you. In Hope Is Not a Plan, you will learn about the real drivers of business success. And you will learn how to harness those drivers to grow a business that serves as a model for others to follow. This book offers indispensable business lessons, such as: Why you must treat people as your greatest asset How to create a winning cadence in your company The importance of narrowing your business focus The secrets to creating a collaborative culture The value of providing a "scoreboard" for your team The magic of metrics and benchmarks How to lead with passion The power of a repeatable process ...and many, many more. Hope is NOT a plan. But this book IS.
Download or read book Small Giants written by Bo Burlingham and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead. It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to march to their own drummer. They include Anchor Brewing, the original microbrewer; CitiStorage Inc., the premier independent records-storage business; Clif Bar & Co., maker of organic energy bars and other nutrition foods; Righteous Babe Records, the record company founded by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco; Union Square Hospitality Group, the company of restaurateur Danny Meyer; and Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, including the world-famous Zingerman’s Deli of Ann Arbor. Burlingham shows how the leaders of these small giants recognized the full range of choices they had about the type of company they could create. And he shows how we can all benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. In his new afterward, Burlingham reflects on the similarities and learning lessons from the small giants he covers in the book.
Download or read book The 10 Fastest Growing Companies in 2022 written by Prime View Magazine and published by Prime View. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10 Fastest Growing Companies in 2022 is a comprehensive guide to the top companies that are expected to experience rapid growth in the upcoming year. Written by industry experts, this book provides an in-depth analysis of each company, including their business model, revenue streams, and key differentiators. It also highlights the trends and technologies that are driving their growth and offers insights on how to replicate their success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or business professional, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to stay ahead of the curve and stay informed about the companies that are shaping the future of business.
Download or read book The New Builders written by Seth Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite popular belief to the contrary, entrepreneurship in the United States is dying. It has been since before the Great Recession of 2008, and the negative trend in American entrepreneurship has been accelerated by the Covid pandemic. New firms are being started at a slower rate, are employing fewer workers, and are being formed disproportionately in just a few major cities in the U.S. At the same time, large chains are opening more locations. Companies such as Amazon with their "deliver everything and anything" are rapidly displacing Main Street businesses. In The New Builders, we tell the stories of the next generation of entrepreneurs -- and argue for the future of American entrepreneurship. That future lies in surprising places -- and will in particular rely on the success of women, black and brown entrepreneurs. Our country hasn't yet even recognized the identities of the New Builders, let alone developed strategies to support them. Our misunderstanding is driven by a core misperception. Consider a "typical" American entrepreneur. Think about the entrepreneur who appears on TV, the business leader making headlines during the pandemic. Think of the type of businesses she or he is building, the college or business school they attended, the place they grew up. The image you probably conjured is that of a young, white male starting a technology business. He's likely in Silicon Valley. Possibly New York or Boston. He's self-confident, versed in the ins and outs of business funding and has an extensive (Ivy League?) network of peers and mentors eager to help his business thrive, grow and make millions, if not billions. You’d think entrepreneurship is thriving, and helping the United States maintain its economic power. You'd be almost completely wrong. The dominant image of an entrepreneur as a young white man starting a tech business on the coasts isn't correct at all. Today's American entrepreneurs, the people who drive critical parts of our economy, are more likely to be female and non-white. In fact, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 according to the Kauffman Foundation (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%). The fastest-growing group of female entrepreneurs are women of color, who are responsible for 64% of new women-owned businesses being created. In a few years, we believe women will make up more than half of the entrepreneurs in America. The age of the average American entrepreneur also belies conventional wisdom: It's 42. The average age of the most successful entrepreneurs -- those in the top .01% in terms of their company's growth in the first five years -- is 45. These are the New Builders. Women, people of color, immigrants and people over 40. We're failing them. And by doing so, we are failing ourselves. In this book, you'll learn: How the definition of business success in America today has grown corporate and around the concepts of growth, size, and consumption. Why and how our collective understanding of "entrepreneurship" has dangerously narrowed. Once a broad term including people starting businesses of all types, entrepreneurship has come to describe only the brash technology founders on the way to becoming big. Who are the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs? What are they working on? What drives them? The real engine that drove Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs. The government had a much bigger role than is widely known The extent to which entrepreneurs and small businesses are woven through our history, and the ways we have forgotten women and people of color who owned small businesses in the past. How we're increasingly afraid to fail The role small businesses are playing saving the wilderness, small
Download or read book The Public Company Transformed written by Brian Cheffins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public company has changed considerably. The transformation has been a fascinating one, marked by scandals, political controversy, wide swings in investor and public sentiment, mismanagement, entrepreneurial verve, noisy corporate "raiders" and various other larger-than-life personalities. Nevertheless, amidst a voluminous literature on corporations, a systematic historical analysis of the changes that have occurred is lacking. The Public Company Transformed correspondingly analyzes how the public company has been recast from the mid-20th century through to the present day, with particular emphasis on senior corporate executives and the constraints affecting the choices available to them. The chronological point of departure is the managerial capitalism era, which prevailed in large American corporations following World War II. The book explores managerial capitalism's rise, its 1950s and 1960s heyday, and its fall in the 1970s and 1980s. It describes the American public companies and executives that enjoyed prosperity during the 1990s, and the reversal of fortunes in the 2000s precipitated by corporate scandals and the financial crisis of 2008. The book also considers the regulation of public companies in detail, and discusses developments in shareholder activism, company boards, chief executives, and concerns about oligopoly. The volume concludes by offering conjectures on the future of the public corporation, and suggests that predictions of the demise of the public company have been exaggerated.
Download or read book Divergent Paths How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth written by Marc Egnal Professor of History York University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically explores how institutions (such as slavery in the South and the seigneurial system in French Canada) and cultural arenas (such as religion, literacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual activity) influenced development. He seeks to answer why three societies with similar standards of living in 1750 became so dissimilar in development. By the mid-nineteenth century, the northern states had surged ahead in growth, and this gap continued to widen into the twentieth century. Egnal argues that culture and institutions allowed this growth in the North, not resources or government policies. Both the South and French Canada stressed hierarchy and social order more than the drive for wealth. Rarely have such parallels been drawn between these two societies. Complete numerous helpful appendices, figures, tables, and maps, Divergent Paths is a rich source of unique perspectives on economic development with strong implications for emerging societies.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Growth written by Robert J. Gordon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Robert Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Download or read book America s Fastest Growing Employers written by Carter Smith and published by Adams Media Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to finding jobs with over 275 of America's hottest companies.
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