Mehrdad Baghai

David White

Steve Coley

Growth unleashes benefits beyond the economic. It revitalizes organizations and invigorates the people in them, creating energy, a sense of purpose, and the glow of being on a winning team. Like the alchemy of old, it seeks to transform the everyday into the exalted by means that seem little short of magical. Yet growth is often elusive, achieved at unacceptable costs, or managed in fits and starts. Based on over three years of research and application at high-performing companies around the world, The Alchemy of Growth is a comprehensive, practical approach to initiating, achieving, and sustaining profitable growth—today and tomorrow. As the book shows, the secret is to manage business opportunities across three time horizons at once: extending and defending core businesses, building new businesses, and seeding options for the future. The Alchemy of Growth offers managers at all levels the tools and concepts for investing in the right initiatives, capabilities, and talent to propel their companies into the future.

Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise

The Alchemy of Growth

Stephen Coley

Based on a five-year study of 30 of the world's greatest growth companies, this is a practical guide to achieving profitable growth.

Kickstarting and Sustaining Growth in Your Company

James Quigley

Ainar Aijala

In a book that looks at the power of collaboration, the authors define eight archetypes of leaders and followers and then explain how readers can take 60 different cases of successful collective behavior and apply them to their own organizations.

Individual Action, Collective Power

As One

Sven Smit

Patrick Viguerie

While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to create and maintain—especially in today’s competitive business environment. The Granularity of Growth will put you in a better position to succeed as it reveals why growth is so important, what enables certain companies to grow so spectacularly, and how to ensure that growth comes from multiple sources as you take both a broad and a granular view of your markets.

How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring Company Performance

The Granularity of Growth

Looks at how to manage a company for sustained profitable growth and provides case studies

David S. White

Growth is the number one strategic concern of virtually every company and executive today. Following the recent years of heavy cost-cutting, companies everywhere are now lean and mean, and desperate for growth. Based upon a major study of 40 of the world's greatest growth companies of recent times (including Disney, Bertelsmann, Gillette, Lotus, Coca-Cola, Nokia) by the world's leading management consultancy, McKinsey & Co, this book provides the most powerful and practical methodology for growth and profitability so far. In examining these leading growth companies, and finding out how they approach and (more important) implement their growth strategies, the authors have discovered that high growth is achieved not by bold leaps but by a series of measured steps. Each of these successful companies share a distinctive pattern in their growth strategy in the form of a 'staircase' of manageable steps. Few if any single steps are dramatic - but when linked together as a staircase of sequential growth, the results are dramatic. This book contains detailed case studies of the main growth companies, and extracts from them the key lessons and methods for corporate growth in today's complex

Offers a look at the power of collaboration, defining eight archetypes of leaders and followers and then explaining how readers can take different cases of successful collective behavior and apply them to their own organizations.

Mehrdad Baghai

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