How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead.It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions...

Bo Burlingham, the bestselling author of Small Giants, returns with Finish Big, an original guide to exiting your company successfully and gracefully.No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out, while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with 'good' exits do differently from those who'd...

It's widely accepted in business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year - but bigger is not necessarily better. In Small Giants, journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable privately held companies, from a brewery to a record label, that chose a different path to success.These organizations quietly rejected the pressure of endless growth, deciding to focus more on satisfying business goals - being the best at what they do...

How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead.It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communi...

“No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exits do differently from those who’d had ‘bad’ exits?”When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business...

好好賺一筆，去過自己想要的生活！Tom Peters: 如果創業者只讀一本書，就讀這本《師父》吧!我們都有生意上的師父，但他們在當我們師父的時候，我們未必察覺。我的第一個師父，也是我最好的師父，是紐約市一位小商人。他的生意是沿街叫賣，像個四處遊走的一人百貨公司，我會跟著他跑，問很多的問題，而他也會把他這麼做的邏輯解釋給我聽。就這樣，我學到一些至今仍然受用的重要生意觀念。我那時只有八歲。那位沿街叫賣的小販，就是我的父親。他是第一個向我解釋維持「高毛利」重要性的人。他用的是不同的說法——利差要大——但思慮過程是相同的。「每一筆生意一定要有很好的利差。」他說：「你的客戶一定得是付得起錢的人。」「不要占別人的便宜。」「要公正。」當我說我想要某個東西時，他說：「你不提出要求，就得不到。」那次，我希望有更多的零用錢。他笑著說：「提出來很好，但你不會只因為提出要求，就得到你想要的東西。...

你的公司，有靈魂嗎？金融時報年度最佳商業書、政大科管所10大好書擺在我們眼前的這些公司，有些很小，有些很大；有些仍在成長（應該說大部分都在成長），但有些選擇完全不成長，甚至刻意讓生意不要做太大。這些公司的共同特徵是：他們努力讓自己成為同行裡最好、最頂尖的，而且都有著神秘的「魔咒」。想也知道，這麼好的公司，都有能力募集資金，讓公司快速成長──也就是跟別的大公司一樣，要嘛併購別的公司，要嘛開發更大的市場。然而，他們還是搖頭，選擇「不」追求營收成長、「不」擴大市場。因為，在他們心中，還有別的目標，比「規模大、成長快」要來得重要。這個目標，常被許多主流大企業與新創公司忽略，但卻是他們成功獲利的關鍵。鲍．柏林罕在十年前發現了這群很低調、但卻很成功的企業，寫成了這本暢銷書。十年後，他為讀者追蹤了這些企業的發展，網路上也組成...

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, Jack Stack, and his revolutionary system of Open-Book Management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and ha...

Too many start-ups don't make the grade - what makes a successful business take off?Starting a new business is exciting, but there are many traps for the unwary. Some would-be entrepreneurs stick so firmly to their step-by-step guides that they don't see what's really going on. Others become so obsessed with potential problems they lose sight of the bigger picture. What they really need, according to serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, is a mindset that will help them to stay focusse...

繼《師父》《小，是我故意的》，鮑**．**柏林罕經典創業典範創業是一趟旅程，你必將豐盛歸來**Amazon百大商管類！**改變創業家命運的一本書你可能讀過《師父》，也讀過《小，是我故意的》。所以你可能正準備創業，或是已經在經營事業。你的事業也許很成功，也許正在努力奮戰中（加油）。你也許信心滿滿老神在在，也許覺得前途茫茫忐忑不安。無論你是哪一種創業者，這本鮑．柏林罕的「創業家三部曲」之《師父的最後修練》（原中文版書名《大退場》），為創業者帶來一堂有趣的「退場思考課」。退場思考，當然不是要你真的退場，而是透過「思考退場」這件事，啟發你面對一些你可能從未想過的事業問題。首先，思考退場，能讓你把公司經營得更好。例如你可以想想：當你要把事業脫手，誰是可能的買家？然後再想想：對方...

"One is tempted to say 'the only book you'll need on starting a business.' Brilliant! Genius! Choose your superlative-it'll fit."-Tom PetersPeople starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise.Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom...

People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise.Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular "Street Smarts" column he cowrites with Bo Burlingham. Now they've adapted their best advice into a comprehensiv...