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.
by Verne Harnish
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.
The books Verne Harnish references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jim Collins
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.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied companies that sustained exceptional performance for decades. The key: preserve a core ideology while relentlessly adapting strategies. Vision without dogma.
by Peter Drucker
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.
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.