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Verne Harnish

Entrepreneur and Business Author

Verne Harnish is an American entrepreneur who founded the Entrepreneurs' Organisation and serves as CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company. His book Scaling Up has been translated into 26 languages and won eight major international book awards.

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Books by Verne Harnish

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

by Verne Harnish

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Harnish updates his Rockefeller Habits into a practical framework for mid-market CEOs, organised around four decisions (people, strategy, execution, cash) that determine whether a company scales beyond inflection points. By last name, Harnish distills tools like the One-Page Strategic Plan, meeting rhythms, and priorities-metrics-quarterly themes into a playbook grounded in case studies of firms that crossed from $10M to $1B.

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Most Recommended by Verne

The books Verne Harnish references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Good to Great

by Jim Collins

star4.6

Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.

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Built to Last by Jim Collins

Built to Last

by Jim Collins

star4.1

Collins studied companies that sustained exceptional performance for decades. The key: preserve a core ideology while relentlessly adapting strategies. Vision without dogma.

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The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

The Effective Executive

by Peter Drucker

star4.1

Drucker argues that effectiveness is a habit executives must learn, not a talent they're born with. The key disciplines: manage time ruthlessly, focus on contribution, and make strengths productive.

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Who Verne draws from, and who draws from Verne — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

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