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The Physics of Business Growth : Mindsets, System, and Processes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporations--Growth.
- Industrial management.
- Corporations.
- Local Subjects:
- Corporations--Growth.
- Industrial management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 p.)
- Other Title:
- Physics of Business Growth
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Organic business growth is governed by its own natural laws-underlying truths that set the stage for growth and innovation, much in the way that Einstein's law of relativity accounts for the movement of objects in the space-time continuum. The most fundamental law is that uncertainty is the only certainty. Dominating forces are ambiguity and change; the processes at work involve exploration, invention, and experimentation. Unfortunately, these truths run counter to the principles of stability, predictability, and linearity that have long informed the design of our firms.The Phy
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; 1. Fighting the Physics of Growth; 2. Creating Prepared Minds; 3. Building a Growth System; 4. Identifying New Ideas; 5. Learning Launches: Doing Growth Experiments; 6. Creating and Managing a Growth Portfolio; Appendix: Tools and Templates, by Chapter; Notes; The Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804784887
- 0804784884
- OCLC:
- 793511124
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