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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t is a guide for growing businesses successfully and profitably. It is the 2014 sequel to Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t is a guide for growing businesses successfully and profitably. It is the 2014 sequel to Mastering the Rockefeller Habits (2002), a book which derives contemporary business advice from the management style of John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil. Some of the material from Rockefeller Habits is repeated in this volume, but a reader does not need to read that book to understand the concepts discussed in this one.
As a business grows, it faces numerous challenges. It needs to develop new leaders and teach old leaders to delegate authority. It needs to create physical and organizational systems to manage expanded tasks and communication. And it needs to take account of new market dynamics and new pressures from competitors.
In order to meet these challenges, businesses must master four
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