Books
At GroProfits, we have highlighted some of the most influential and pertinent book resources related to scaling businesses to new heights. Click on any of the books below to get world-class techniques, tips, and insights from some of the brightest minds in the field. Make sure to grab a pen to take notes too!
Scaling Up
The book includes a series of new one-page tools including the updated One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits ChecklistTM, which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully – many to $1 billion and beyond.
Titan
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul.
Scaling Up: Compensation
Nail it and you can add hundreds of percentage points to the bottom line while driving up the energy in the organization. Make the wrong call (or piecemeal the decision together), and the results will create needless drama throughout the organization.
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
What are the fundamentals that haven’t changed? From Harnish’s “One-Page Strategic Plan” to his concise outline of 8 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.
Propelling Performance
Business owners and leaders are being challenged as never before. The trends are changing fast, business models are under attack, clients are fickle, and staff expectations are rising. It can make for very reactionary leadership…but that is not what drives sustainable success.
Scale
Your concrete road map to rapidly grow your business and get your life back! As an owner, it’s all too common to feel you have to choose between your personal life and your business’ success. But the surprising truth is that the only way to scale your company is to reduce its reliance on you.
Profit First
With dozens of case studies, practical step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing road map for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of. This book helps small businesses break out of the spiral and achieve instant profitability.
Scaling Up Simplified
Did you know more than 50 percent of businesses fail in the first three to five years? And the ones that stay in the game are barely surviving! Only a handful of companies thrive in the marketplace; do you want to know why? Discover the secrets businesses apply to scale up quickly.
Scale Up
Plenty of books have been written on startups, but not much has been written about what happens next, when you want to scale and move your business into an advanced stage of growth: the classic “too big to be small and too small to be big” stage.
Deep Work
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive economy.
Competition Demystified
Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation’s leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog surrounding the subject. This book teaches you how to understand the competitive structure of your industry and develop a strategy.
Good to Great
Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don’t. The findings include: Level Five Leadership, The Hedgehog Concept, discipline, technology accelerators, and more!
Topgrading
Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent: The more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Companies that have used Brad Smart’s system have dramatically boosted their hiring success rates – even to 90%.
Understanding Michael Porter
Five forces. The value chain. Competitive advantage. Relative cost. Industry structure. Differentiation. Porter’s frameworks are the foundation for understanding how to achieve and sustain competitive success. Everyone in business may know his name, but many managers misuse his concepts.
The Dream Manager
A business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreams. Managing people is difficult. With disengagement and turnover on the rise, many managers are scratching their heads wondering what to do.
Built to Last
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took 18 truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation’s leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog surrounding the subject. This book teaches you how to understand the competitive structure of your industry and develop a strategy.
Crossing the Chasm
Five forces. The value chain. Competitive advantage. Relative cost. Industry structure. Differentiation. Porter’s frameworks are the foundation for understanding how to achieve and sustain competitive success. Everyone in business may know his name, but many managers misuse his concepts.
Abundance
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took 18 truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors.