Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm - Hardcover

Harnish, Verne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590790154 ISBN 13: 9781590790151

Publisher: Gazelles, Inc., 2002

Synopsis

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous One-Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business. Lastly, there are case studies demonstrating the validity of Harnish's practical approaches.

If you are looking for an expanded and updated version of this 2002 best-seller, look for Verne Harnish’s latest title Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0).  In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business. These approaches have been honed from over three decades of advising tens of thousands of CEOs and executives and helping them navigate the increasing complexities (and weight) that come with scaling up a venture. This book is written so everyone - from frontline employees to senior executives - can get aligned in contributing to the growth of a firm. There’s no reason to do it alone, yet many top leaders feel like they are the ones dragging the rest of the organization up the S-curve of growth. This book can help you turn what feels like an anchor into wind at your back ― creating a company where the team is engaged; the customers are doing your marketing; and everyone is making money.  To accomplish this, Scaling Up focuses on the four major decision areas every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. The book includes a series of new one-page tools including the updated One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits Checklist™, which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully ― many to $1 billion and beyond. Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride. 

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About the Author

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and chaired for fifteen years EO's premiere CEO program, the "Birthing of Giants" and WEO's "Advanced Business" executive program both held at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 coaching partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping companies scale-up.

The "Growth Guy" syndicated columnist, he's also the Venture columnist for FORTUNE magazine. He’s the author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0); Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored "The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times", for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. Verne also chairs FORTUNE Magazine's annual Leadership and Growth Summits and serves on several boards including chairman of The Riordan Clinic and the newly launched Geoversity.

An investor in several scale-ups, Verne resides in Barcelona, Spain, with his wife and four children and enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

From the Inside Flap

Is your firm ready for dynamic growth?

"Everyone talks about the 'entrepreneurial glass ceiling' and advises you to 'let go,' 'delegate more,' 'concentrate on alignment,' 'be unique,' 'remain nimble as your company grows,' etc., but no one, until now, ever gives you a practical guide on HOW to achieve all of that and keep your sanity. This practical guide is all about breaking that entrepreneurial glass ceiling and moving to a professionally managed company while retaining the entrepreneurial spirit." Alan Rudy, CEO, Express-Med

Alan Rudy and thousands of other business owners like you have benefited directly from the simple and practical "tools" outlined in Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? For tycoon John D. Rockefeller it was the consistent application of a set of habits that are as critical today as they were when the oil industry entered it s "disciplined" phase following the wildcatters.

How do you know these tools work?

Over one hundred business leaders have provided testimonials to the power of these tools see this book's first dozen pages. The tools in this book come from almost two decades of Verne Harnish's work with the CEOs and executive teams of fast growth firms.

As founder and program chair of the world-renowned MIT/Inc./YEO "Birthing of Giants" executive program, Verne has learned how to teach these tools to CEOs who have no patience for anything accept that which they can put to work immediately to solve the challenges that come with building a company. And they want these tools taught simply and quickly.

From Verne s famous "Mastering a One Page Strategic Plan" process that has been a best-selling article on the web to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet.

Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business. Lastly, there are case studies demonstrating the validity of Harnish's practical approaches.

Verne Harnish has a gift for turning complex problems into simple solutions. MASTERING THE ROCKEFELLER HABITS provides easy-to-use tools for making strategically smart decisions and for keeping everyone aligned and accountable to those decisions.

Verne Harnish has a long, influential track record with entrepreneurial and emerging business. After co-founding the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs (ACE) and establishing chapters in universities worldwide, he founded the internationally recognized Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO). As the founder of prestigious MIT/Inc./YEO Executive Program, founder of Gazelles, Inc. and creator of the Master of Business Dynamics program, Verne s mission is to help entrepreneurs of emerging, fast-growth companies increase the value of their firms. Verne Harnish has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Wichita State University. He lives in Virginia with his wife Julie and two sons, Cameron and Cole.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gazelles, Inc.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590790154
• ISBN 13: 9781590790151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176