Thought Leaders
Processes vs. Functions: Reducing Business Insanity
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
Customers experience your company’s processes, not its functions. Yet executives spend most of their time focused on making sure the functions of the firm i.e. sales, operations, finance, HR, IT, etc. are properly led, staffed, and driven by appropriate key performance indicators (KPIs).
For the sake of customers and the [...]
Ten Tips to Bottom Line Up Management
Twitter It!10 Tips to Bottom Line Up Management
By Rich Russakoff and Mary Goodman
Bottom Line Up management is common sense but not often common practice. For Stage 1 Entrepreneurs, many of these tips will be new and compelling. For the more seasoned Entrepreneurs, we hope they will provide the impetus to remain [...]
Reducing Insanity; Critical Processes; Living Longer; European Tour
Twitter It! “…keeping you great” By Verne Harnish
HEADLINES: Must Watch Documentary — Thomas Friedman, the acclaimed NY Times columnist and author, featured Steve Mariotti and NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship) in his Sunday column entitled “More [...]
Is “Going East” in your 2010 Plans?
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
One of India’s wealthiest business leaders, Anil Ambani, invests $325 million in Steven Spielberg’s movie studio DreamWorks – something unimaginable just five years ago. In turn, Warren Buffett invests $230 million for a 10% stake in Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD, the same investor who shunned technology investments earlier this [...]
Jim Collins Top Ten Books; Jim Collins Key Disciplines; Jim Collins Interview; Power of PICS
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HEADLINES: (Growth Summit Highlights Day 1, 2 minute interviews)
Best News from Jim Collins — THE question that got the attention of a lot of entrepreneurs and their teams in the room last week was when Jim was asked whether founders were able to actually build a company beyond start-up i.e. would they [...]