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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
by Keith R. Mcfarland
from Crown Business
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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More Useful than "Good to Great" by Colins 
While Collin's "Good to Great" is a great book "The Breakthrough Company" is much better and more practical for most business people. It deals with the practical success criteria for "start-up" and small to medium firms. I have read it twice and already given away about a dozen copies.
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How to Grow and Grow and Grow
While my own book focuses on dramatically increasing your visibility, Keith's book targets dramatically increasing that... and everything else! Don't stay small when you don't have to: let the wisdom within Keith's pages show you how to grow and grow and grow.
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The Good to Great book for small businesses
Breakthrough Companies is a great book that is the "Good to Great" book for small businesses.
It talks about how small businesses became breakthrough companies by taking actions.
I highly recommend this book
Here are the major things Keith talks about in his book
Crowning the company
Build something bigger than themselves. A Breakthrough company worries first about the company before any one person.
They use the following table to show the differences
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Nice focus on small->large transition, but question if the attributes caused success
This book details a set of transitions in philosophy for companies as they move from being fast-growing startups to much larger companies ($100+ million revenue). Similar to Collins' Good to Great, this is a detailed analysis of a number of successful companies in that range, along with some deep studies of what worked for them. There are a bunch of great stories about what worked, as well as contrasts with specific comparison companies that it didn't work for. I recommend reading it, if only for the... more info
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