High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global enterprises.

Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including:

• The role of the CEO


• Managing a board


• Recruiting and overseeing an executive team


• Mergers and acquisitions


• Initial public offerings


• Late-stage funding.

Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Referenciado como uno de los diez mejores libros sobre gestión empresarial, Good to Great nos ofrece todo un conjunto de directrices y paradigmas que debe adoptar cualquier empresa que pretenda diferenciarse de las demás. Después de revisar montañas de datos, de hacer miles de entrevistas y de utilizar rigurosas herramientas de comparación, Jim Collins y su equipo de investigación identificaron los determinantes clave de la excelencia en un conjunto de empresas de élite que dieron el salto hasta conseguir unos resultados extraordinarios y sostenibles. // Reference as one of the ten best books on business management, Good to Great offers us a whole set of guidelines and paradigms that should be adopted by any company seeking to differentiate itself from others. After reviewing mountains of data, conducting thousands of interviews, and using rigorous comparison tools, Collins and his research team identified the key drivers of excellence in an elite set of companies that made the leap to achieve extraordinary and sustainable results for at least fifteen years. How extraordinary? After driving the change, the companies that went from good to extraordinary generated accumulated stock market returns over fifteen years that were on average seven times higher than the general market and twice as good as the results obtained by the world's leading composite index of companies such as Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric and Merck.

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health--complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation's leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way--one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT - One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.--Harvard Business Review

This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people's ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.

Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire.

Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:

- Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
- Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity
- Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets
- Teach you to see the forest and the trees
- End the struggle between work and personal time

This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.

Imagine a team with completely committed and selfless collaborative team members. Imagine a team who cared deeply and passionately about team results. Imagine a team where you (as a leader or a teammate) were free from the burden of dealing with team politics, drama, and distractions. Imagine a team where egos are checked at the door, and shared commitment to team excellence takes precedence. Is it possible? Yes!

Drawing on decades of expertise, visionary leader and team expert Michael G. Rogers presents an unparalleled approach to team development that sets this book apart from any other in the leadership genre.

With captivating stories, relatable examples, introspective activities, and actionable exercises, this book challenges your team's mindset and equips them with the tools to elevate their personal performance and that of your entire team.

You Are the Team - 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go from Good to Great is not a book just for you but for every member of your team. It is a meaningful, practical, actionable, and enduring gift to your team and possibly a gift to your entire organization.

Within the chapters of this book, the members of your team will learn to:

• Embrace selflessness by prioritizing the team's needs above individual interests.
• Uphold commitments and follow through on promises made.
• Engage in honest, bold, and direct discussions, fostering a culture of open communication.
• Take ownership of personal performance and strive for excellence.
• Seek out and embrace constructive feedback from fellow teammates.
• Cultivate a profound sense of gratitude for both leaders and teammates.
• Infuse positive energy into every team and teammate interaction, fostering a vibrant and productive environment.
• Reject negativity and gossip, cultivating an atmosphere of respect and professionalism.
• Regularly express appreciation and celebrate teammate and collective team successes.
• Exhibit kindness and respect toward team members, fostering a harmonious working relationship.
• Develop empathy and a deepened understanding of teammates' perspectives.
• Go above and beyond to support the team, demonstrating unwavering commitment.
• Sharpen focus on shared goals through strong personal goals.
• Present solutions and actively be a part of the solution rather than dwelling on and complaining about problems.
• Inspire and lead others through action, becoming a beacon of motivation and guidance to the team.

It is a time-honored truth that remarkable teams are composed of extraordinary individuals, and this book empowers every team member to rise to their full potential.

Central to every exceptional team are strong relationships. The foundation for true collaboration and outstanding results lies in an unwavering commitment to nurturing these teammate connections. Michael's groundbreaking book unveils the secrets to forging unbreakable bonds among teammates, enabling them to transcend mediocrity and become extraordinary team players in their pursuit of extraordinary results.

Author Michael G. Rogers is a former Director of Learning, Performance and Quality for a Fortune 50 company. He is an Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker and is currently a lecturer of management at Southern Utah University Dixie L. Leavitt School of Business. Michael is also the president of the Teamwork and Leadership Company and has worked with and helped hundreds of leaders in building more effective teams.

Be prepared to enter a world where individual potential merges with team and organizational greatness.

Teamwork Team Building Teammates Teams Team Results

The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and powerlessness at lower levels, from infighting and bureaucracy, from endless meetings and a seemingly never-ending succession of change and cost-cutting programs. Deep inside, we long for soulful workplaces, for authenticity, community, passion, and purpose. The solution, according to many progressive scholars, lies with more enlightened management. But reality shows that this is not enough. In most cases, the system beats the individual-when managers or leaders go through an inner transformation, they end up leaving their organizations because they no longer feel like putting up with a place that is inhospitable to the deeper longings of their soul. We need more enlightened leaders, but we need something more: enlightened organizational structures and practices. But is there even such a thing? Can we conceive of enlightened organizations? In this groundbreaking book, the author shows that every time humanity has shifted to a new stage of consciousness in the past, it has invented a whole new way to structure and run organizations, each time bringing extraordinary breakthroughs in collaboration. A new shift in consciousness is currently underway. Could it help us invent a radically more soulful and purposeful way to run our businesses and nonprofits, schools and hospitals? The pioneering organizations researched for this book have already cracked the code. Their founders have fundamentally questioned every aspect of management and have come up with entirely new organizational methods. Even though they operate in very different industries and geographies and did not know of each other's experiments, the structures and practices they have developed are remarkably similar. It's hard not to get excited about this finding: a new organizational model seems to be emerging, and it promises a soulful revolution in the workplace. Reinventing Organizations describes in practical detail how organizations large and small can operate in this new paradigm. Leaders, founders, coaches, and consultants will find this work a joyful handbook, full of insights, examples, and inspiring stories.

LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS IN A TOUGH ECONOMY

In this unpredictable business landscape, everyone is struggling to choose between chasing short-term objectives and creating a secure future for their company, but both are crucial.

As CEO of Honeywell, David Cote understood this dilemma well. He turned the company around despite facing the 2008 recession. In these pages, he shows you how taking the same revolutionary approach might be the smartest business decision you'll ever make.

Presenting a comprehensive solution to a perennial problem, Winning Now, Winning Later is a go-to guide for you and leaders everywhere to finally transcend short-termism's daily grind and leave an enduring legacy of success. This tested and proven approach can strengthen your business like never before and even rescue it from the brink of disaster, no matter how dire the current circumstances may seem.

In Winning Now, Winning Later, Cote shares 10 essential principles for winning today and tomorrow such as:

• Spot business practices that seem attractive in the short term but will cost the company in the future
• Determine where and how to invest in growth initiatives for maximum impact
• Sustain both short-term performance and long-term investments even in challenging times, such as a recession or leadership transition
• Feel inspired to stand up to investors and managers who are solely focused on either short- or long-term company objectives
• Step back and foster independent thinking among those around you

How do you do two seemingly opposite things at once? How can you be candid and diplomatic, provide structure and flexibility, keep things stable and lead change, and focus on organizational interests while simultaneously doing what's best for employees? Many approach these polarities with either/or thinking, but leaders, teams, and organizations that navigate them using a both/and mindset significantly outperform those who don't. The trick is knowing how.

In their work with thousands of people across the globe, Brian Emerson and Kelly Lewis have seen the tension and stress polarities can create in relationships, teams, and in organizations. In this book, they share the practical tools to transform that tension into a positive driving force by expanding either/or thinking to include a both/and mindset.

While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable.

Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips.

Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.

In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.

Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today's legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?

Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives--transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance--taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.

As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

This book has the potential to change CEO mindsets, human resource practices, manager behavior, and employee well-being--if only enough people grab it and heed its powerful messages. --Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of Think Outside the Building

Dobbin and Kalev have spent their careers studying why diversity initiatives fail and what it takes to fix them. Their data-driven book doesn't just spotlight the problems--it's packed with solutions. --Adam Grant

Essential reading for anyone who wants to learn which practices can actually improve managerial diversity in organizations.--Edward Chang, Science

Too many companies don't know how to walk the walk of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Getting to Diversity shows them how.--Lori George Billingsley, former Global Chief DEI Officer, Coca-Cola Company

This is the book all leaders need to read to achieve results.--Adia Wingfield, author of Flatlining

Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it?

Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev draw on more than thirty years of data from eight hundred companies as well as in-depth interviews with managers to show just how little companies gain from standard practice: sending managers to diversity training to reveal their biases, then following up with hiring and promotion rules, and sanctions, to shape their behavior. Almost nothing changes. It's time, Dobbin and Kalev argue, to focus on changing the management systems that make it hard for women and people of color to succeed. They demonstrate how the best firms are pioneering new recruitment, mentoring, and skill training systems, and implementing strategies for mixing segregated work groups to increase diversity. And they argue that as firms adopt new systems, the key to making them work is to make them accessible to all--not just the favored few.

Powerful, authoritative, and driven by a commitment to change, Getting to Diversity is the book we need now to address constructively one of the most fraught challenges in American life.

Are you spending your most of your time putting out fires and treating symptoms that reignite again and again? Are you frustrated trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, investors, etc.?

What if you could develop your own custom leadership system and collaborative leadership style to leverage the forces of change to transform your organization's systems and culture? What if you could increase the odds of successful strategy deployment by using a flexible design framework to re]design your organization systems and processes? What if you could create ever-improving value for multiple stakeholders including customers, workforce, investors, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment?

Here is The Blueprint This book combines over 25 years of experience with research that resulted in two award-winning, peer-reviewed frameworks. The Leadership and Design Frameworks are integrated into a 14-step Blueprint for leading the journey to sustainable excellence. These steps are covered in the 14 chapters from leveraging the forces for change to the nine components of the leadership system to a collaborative leadership style and culture of service.

Learn how to:

1. Identify and leverage the Forces for Change
2. Apply the nine key components of an effectiveLeadership System
3. Develop your own Collaborative Leadership Style
4. Develop a Culture of Service
5. Identify your own Individual Characteristics that support your leadership approach
6. Leverage the Facilitators of Change to lead a successful re]design and transformation and...Create Sustainable Value for Multiple Stakeholders

Whether you are transforming an enterprise organization or just redesigning and rebuilding a part of the organization this book will help you get started on a solid foundation

A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins' most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups.

The key to business success is not a single innovation or one plan. It is the act of turning the flywheel, slowly gaining momentum and eventually reaching a breakthrough. Building upon the flywheel concept introduced in his groundbreaking classic Good to Great, Jim Collins teaches readers how to create their own flywheel, how to accelerate the flywheel's momentum, and how to stay on the flywheel in shifting markets and during times of turbulence.

Combining research from his Good to Great labs and case studies from organizations like Amazon, Vanguard, and the Cleveland Clinic which have turned their flywheels with outstanding results, Collins demonstrates that successful organizations can disrupt the world around them--and reach unprecedented success--by employing the flywheel concept.

The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates how entire organizations-from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives-can put Agile to work.

Author Matt LeMay explains Agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of Agile across industries and functions.

• Understand exactly what Agile is and why it matters
• Use Agile to address your organization's specific needs and goals
• Take customer centricity from theory into practice
• Stop wasting time in report and critique meetings and start making better decisions
• Create a harmonious cycle of learning, collaborating, and delivering
• Learn from Agile experts at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola

Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.

It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does--but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status.

Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in industries and organizations across the world? In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answer--and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption.

Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise. For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Kotter advocates a new system--a second, more agile, network-like structure that operates in concert with the hierarchy to create what he calls a dual operating system--one that allows companies to capitalize on rapid-fire strategic challenges and still make their numbers.

Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight Accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling. And perhaps most crucial, the book reveals how the best companies focus and align their people's energy and urgency around what Kotter calls the big opportunity.

If you're a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.

What qualities come to mind when you think about a good leader? Good listener, empathetic, good communication skills, humble, and clear expectations. Whether you're leading a small or large team, How to Be a Leader by former Honeywell CEO David Cote is a resource that will help you become the leader everyone respects and follows.

60 entries each focus on a leadership topic, highlight Cote's advice, and end with a prompt to help you build your leadership skills. How to Be a Leader will teach you how to:

• pursue long- and short- term goals.
• commit to change and the best ways to implement change.
• inspire others and push yourself at the same time.
• create alignment around company strategy.
• improve productivity and manage different opinions.
• create a diverse and connected culture.

Leadership isn't about having all the answers or having control of everything. Leadership means bringing out the best in your employees, creating paths that work for your business, and building a presence that exists in small and big moments.

A revolutionary guide to catalyzing multi-system change and planetary healing.

Experience 7 practices combined with powerful frameworks to create a more integrated and conscious future from the bestselling author of Theory U.

We are living in a time of unprecedented crisis and breakdown. But amid the chaos, small islands of coherence are emerging--localized pockets of pioneering thought leaders taking action to begin to catalyze multi-system transformation.

Incorporating proven frameworks like Social Fields and the Collective Evolutionary Mirror, the authors share transformative real-world stories of these islands of coherence from the frontlines of change across the globe. You'll go inside the experiences of paradigm-shifting change makers and gain powerful practices for sensing and actualizing the future that wants to emerge.

This book outlines 7 critical contributions for elevating our civilization including:

• becoming aware
• generative listening
• dialogue and co-sensing
• presencing
• ecosystem leadership
• co-creating across boundaries
• build unity

With this holistic guide, you'll discover how your local actions can cascade into a planetary movement for human and ecological flourishing. The next renaissance is emergent--be a part of birthing it into reality.

Generate faster, better results--using less capital and fewer resources!

Toyota, Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, and the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power Program operate in vastly different worlds, but they have one thing in common. Each of these organizations generates constant, almost automatic operational self-improvements at rates faster, durations longer, and breadths wider than any of its competitors.

Excellence in operational management is the single element separating industry leaders from all others. The High-Velocity Edge is a blueprint for fueling innovation and improvement at both the management and process level in your own company. It's not magic, it's not luck. It's something that that can be taught, cultivated, practiced, and effectively applied to an organization. Spears explains how to:

• Build a system of dynamic discovery that reveals operational problems and weaknesses
• Attack and solve problems at the time and in the place where they occur, converting weaknesses into strengths
• Disseminate knowledge gained from solving local problems throughout the company as a whole
• Create managers invested in the process of continual innovation

Apply the lessons of The High-Velocity Edge, and you will enjoy profitability, quality, efficiency, reliability, and agility unmatched by any of your rivals.

Outstanding! hits the nail on the head in every way: Practical content, terrific stories, and an easy read. Miller has provided a road map for organizations to become exceptional--just follow the path laid out. Definitely a must read!
--Dave Ramsey, author of Total Money Makeover and host of The Dave Ramsey Show

Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. People in these organizations hold values and take actions-- individually and collectively--that are not always easy or obvious but are fundamentally powerful.

Informed by his own commitment to the concept of personal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories from exceptional organizations, in this insightful and accessible book John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides readers with ways to integrate them into their own work.

With its pithy entries that carry significant impact, Outstanding is by turns a playbook, a guide, and an inspiration. It is filled with practical ideas that can--and should--be used every single day by individuals and teams from the boardroom to the stockroom for creating a distinguished organization with which customers and stakeholders will want to work.

How to Structure Your Business for Exponential Growth Have you ever wondered why some businesses scale while others fail? For every company that triples in size, thousands lose their momentum and get stuck. Every business leader aspires to achieve and sustain growth, but most come up short. Usually this happens because the early start-up structure is not designed to support their next-stage business strategy. It is not designed to scale. For a company to execute its strategy and scale up, its leadership must know why, how, and when to change the organizational structure. They must also know how to design the structure so that the right people can play key roles where they can thrive. Designed to Scale explains the principles of scalable organizational structure: What are the structural traps that kill business growth? How do you successfully and quickly change your company's trajectory? How do you design an agile and responsive organization that lasts? In this insightful and eye-opening book, author and business scaling expert Lex Sisney dispels the most common myths about organizational structure and shows you what really works-giving you a clear, actionable blueprint to grow your company exponentially and sustainably including how to: - Design your business for the next stage of growth. - Create vivid role clarity and accountability across your organization - Make smarter senior-level hires that stick around and thrive. - Improve cross-functional coordination and teamwork. - Drive better metrics-based decision-making. - Free yourself to work significantly more on the business than in it. - Launch and grow new business units while sustaining the core. - Drive strategic execution at scale. What other CEOs are saying: One of the best business books I have ever read. - Gareth Dickens, CEO, ConvenientMD Simple, logical, profound. - Stan Smith, President, Silver Hills Management genius. - Michael Cassau, Founder & CEO, Grover Master when and how to change structures. - Ozzie Goldschmied, former CTO, Ceridian Accomplish in 5 days what used to take 3 months. - Kristian Gjerding, CEO, CellPoint Digital The rarest bird of all-a useful management book. - Daniel Needham, President & Chief Investment Officer, Morningstar Investment Management