Scaling Up

How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Ranked #23 in Business Planning, Ranked #37 in Business Strategysee more rankings.

Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards for General Business

Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for General Business

Winner of the 2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Gold Medal for Non-Fiction Business

Winner of the 2015 Paris Book Festival Award for Business

Winner of the 2015 Amsterdam Book Festival Award for Business

Winner of the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Award for Business
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Reviews and Recommendations

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Patrick Lencioni President/The Table GroupVerne Harnish is more committed to helping companies grow than any other person on the planet. Really. He's also radically practical in his approach and that is reflected throughout this terrific book. (Source)

Graham Weston CEO/RackspaceFast-growing companies - not small ones or big ones - create almost all the jobs and innovation in our economy, and Verne has been an invaluable guide to leaders of such companies, like me. Scaling Up helps us put in place the disciplines critical to building a significant business. (Source)

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Alexandra Stroe [I'd recommend] Scaling Up by Verne Harnish, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz and Measure what Matters by John Doerr for scaling and managing the business. (Source)

Iulia Ghita My favorite business book is Scaling Up by Verne Harnish; and people hear me talking about it all the time. It’s the book that helped us grow Bookster into what it is today: 65,000 readers in over 700 companies. Scaling Up is not an easy read, it has a lot of very specific information, much like a handbook for your own business. I keep Scaling Up on my desk and even though I’ve read it time and again, every time I open it I find new insights and information I may have overlooked the previous times. [...] Scaling Up helped us align and organize Bookster. I believe it’s a must read for every... (Source)

Scott Tannas We've scaled up our company from a single office near Calgary to 2,000 employees on 165 locations across Western Canada. Verne's tools and techniques have been critical to helping us drive and manage this growth during my 20 years as CEO - and ultimately to freeing me up as the founder to pursue other interests. (Source)


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