Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers - Hardcover

Sher, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1629560065 ISBN 13: 9781629560069

Publisher: Bibliomotion, 2014

Synopsis

Midsized companies are often overlooked by Wall Street and mainstream media outlets, though they are an integral part of national economics. Thus it's important for national economic success to have a thriving midsized company sector. But that is not easy to do, largely because the factors that throttle growth of midsized companies can be quite different than those of their smaller and larger business brethren. Some of these factors are well known, but others can creep up on management teams and go almost unnoticed until it's too late.  Drawing upon his own experience and interviews with more than 99 companies, author Robert Sher runs through seven "silent growth killers" that plague midsized companies which, if not addressed, eventually cripple growth. Mighty Midsized Companies offers clear, tangible, actionable advice about dealing with these killers and growing despite them

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About the Author:

For more than two decades, Robert Sher was the CEO of a mid-sized company. Since 2007 he’s been a personal advisor to more than 80 mid-market company CEOs and their management teams, helping them identify the growth killers and help the company recover. Since 2011, he’s been researching the vulnerabilities of the middle market, and has interviewed over 100 middle market executives (most of whom are not his clients). Sher began writing about these issues as a columnist at Forbes.com in early 2012, the publication’s only contributor focused on the management challenges of mid-market companies. More recently, Sher was asked by CFO magazine to write a regular column in its online edition for mid-market chief financial officers.

Review:

Problems specific to midsize companies are not always visible. Sher writes passionately about the ways in which leaders can become aware of these challenges and rally their management teams. This is a quiet but hard-hitting game plan.”
Publishers Weekly

Robert Sher has written a very important book in these times of economic uncertainty, and every executive team member of a midsized company should read it.”
Warren Bennis, author and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California

Through interviews with CEOs as well as real life case studies, author Robert Sher shows readers how to keep a midsized company healthy and avoid the seven dangerous mistakes that kill growth.”
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Legendary Service

Robert Sher offers powerful insights into how to address the critical issues that can derail growth in midsize companies.”
Douglas Conant, former CEO, Campbell Soup Company and the New York Times bestselling author of TouchPoints

Mighty Midsized Companies superbly identifies the seven silent killers which routinely throw a wrench into a company’s development and provides excellent solutions for fostering success. A terrific read.”
Stephen M. R. Covey, author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Speed of Trust, and coauthor of Smart Trust

What a valuable book! Sher understands the unique opportunities and temptations that middle market companies meet on their road to growth.”
Thomas A. Stewart, executive director, National Center for the Middle Market

Robert Sher’s insightful and useful book could only have been created by someone who’s been immersed in this world as practitioner and thought leader. Let’s hope that this book is the first of many to shine the spotlight of public attention on this high-performing sector and its leaders.”
George Gendron, long-time editor-in-chief of Inc. Magazine and founder of The Build Network for mid-sized companies, a co-venture of Inc. Magazine and Fast Company

About this edition

• Publisher: Bibliomotion
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1629560065
• ISBN 13: 9781629560069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256