Verne Harnish
CEO Health: Stop the Rust
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
In the same (simple) way that lemon juice prevents a quartered apple from turning brown, high dose vitamin C prevents harmful oxidation from sapping the life out of today’s busy executive – and now we understand the mechanism
Year after year I’ve watched CEOs come off high stress [...]
One Powerful Culture
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
No company better exemplifies the power of a strong corporate culture than Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer acquired by Amazon last November for $1.2 billion. Just over a decade old, its corporate culture is the critical glue that helps this rapidly growing company deliver on its promise [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]