"Praise for BLUEPRINT TO A BILLION
""A wonderful, well thought out analysis of entrepreneurship and leadership of a growth company.""
—Howard Lester, Chairman, Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
""If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this is a fascinating down-to-earth study that you must read. Apply the seven essential principles to your business and you are off and running. Learn about strategy, growth, leadership, team building, and a whole lot more.""
—Joe Scarlett, Chairman of the Board, Tractor Supply Company
""Blueprint to a Billion is a well-researched and thoughtfully written book that quantifies the growth pattern of America's highest growth companies.""
—Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School
""Eighty percent of the top-performing stocks in the last twenty years were small entrepreneurial companies that had an IPO in the prior eight years. Blueprint to a Billion tells you the seven key things these innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies.""
—William J. O'Neil, Chairman and Founder Investor's Business Daily, www.investors.com
""Thomson has written a masterful work that will catalyze, empower, inspire, motivate, and illuminate entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. The world needs this book and will profit from it in manifold ways.""
—David M. Darst, Managing Director, Individual Investor Group Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley"
By:
David G. Thomson (Lucent Technologies)
Foreword by:
Marshall Goldsmith
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780471747475
ISBN 10: 0471747475
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 November 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Replaced By: 9780470532959
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii 1 The Blueprint Thesis: A Different Approach to Growth 1 Part One Create and Sustain a Breakthrough Value Proposition 23 2 The Blueprint Value Proposition 25 Part Two Create and Sustain Exponential Revenue Growth 51 3 Exploit a High-Growth Market Segment 53 4 Marquee Customers Shape the Revenue Powerhouse 75 5 Leverage Big Brother Alliances for Breaking into New Markets 105 Part Three Seizing the Opportunity to Create Exponential Returns 129 6 Becoming the Masters of Exponential Returns 131 7 The Management Team: Inside-Outside Leadership 155 8 The Board: Comprised of Essentials Experts 183 9 Linking the 7 Essentials 189 10 Blueprint Companies for the Next Decade and Your Part in Them: An Epilogue 213 Appendix A Top 100 Blueprint Companies 223 Appendix B Delivering Breakthrough Benefits Drives Exponential Growth 227 Appendix C Assessing Management’s Focus, Drive, and Ability 233 Appendix D Methodology 237 Endnotes 243 Index 253
DAVID G. THOMSON has been leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas.
Reviews for Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
Computer epistemology suggests a broad view of knowledge about computers, and this essay is at the expected level ... Some of the key areas covered are models, language as a means of describing models, and complexity ... This essay is indeed intriguing and stimulating ... John McGregor Computing Reviews, USA April 1992
