Synopses & Reviews
Can a business accelerate in size and scope without speeding out of control? It's a critical question these days as organizations grapple with fast-breaking opportunities and commensurate growing pains. This book provides a proven game plan for sane, sustainable growth.
Aimed at independent businesses and high-growth corporate divisions alike, WARP-SPEED GROWTH shows how to focus on the resources that make or break fast growth--time, people, and money. It explains how managers can invest these limited resources in targeted ways to build new markets and exploit new technologies.
Rich in ready-to-use tools and reference charts, the book pays special attention to the urgent issue of finding and retaining good employees in a tight labor market. A unique index of challenges allows readers to search for solutions according to the range of real-life problems faced by fast-growth companies.
About the Author
Peter Meyer (Scotts Valley, CA) is president of The Meyer Group, a consulting firm, and contributor to The Wall Street Journal and other publications.
Table of Contents
1. Sustainable and Sane Business Growth
Part I: The Foundations
2. Jigsaw Management: Conserve Time, People, and Money
3. What Keeps the CEO Up at Night: Worries of Not Finding New Markets and Good People
4. Rapid Growth and Your Resources: Knowing What to Invest
5. Buying Future Growth: Corporate or Private InvestorsÉor Not?
Part II: Resource Strategies and Applications
6. Resource Strategies: Grow and Dominate New Markets
7. Applications: Build and Lead New Markets
8. Resource Strategies: Growth, People, and Structure
9. Applications: Hire, Organize, Reward, and Keep Good People
10. Resource Strategies: Growth and Technology
11. Applications: Plan for Technology and Take Advantage of the Disruption
12. Warp Speed Growth: Managing a Business Built for Speed