Mastering the 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies: Effective Lessons to Grow Your Business

American business is entering uncharted territory. Growth will be harder to achieve and business failure will be more prevalent. What separates average management teams from the masters – those who can grow their companies through the most challenging of markets and economic cycles? What are the actionable lessons from America's recession-proof companies?  What do top-achieving firms illustrate about values, fundamentals and actions that can be applied more widely? And does their success pattern holdup in businesses of every size and in every market? 

According to author David G. Thomson, who has spent years of extensive research on high revenue growth companies and shared these insights with management teams worldwide, there is a unique combination of factors that leads to exceptional growth. The difference between a struggling company and flourishing enterprise is in the combination of what it does and how it does it.

In MASTERING THE 7 ESSENTIALS OF HIGH-GROWTH COMPANIES (Wiley; May 2010; $19.95; 978-0-470-61062-6; Hardcover), Thomson provides a proven set of management practices that can be applied to propel a company’s growth prospects through all economic cycles. 

Incorporating extensive research and examples of companies that have consistently achieved exponential revenue growth, some of the highlights Thomson reveals include the following:

• The basics of The 7 Essentials and how applying them will propel a business or business unit into the realm of high growth.
• In-depth interviews and insights from CEOs who have applied The 7 Essentials to achieve high growth from small companies such as Phil Zaroor's Advantage Pressure Pro, to midsized growth companies such as Selim Bassoul's Middleby Corporation to corporate titans such as Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples, who grew his company to over $15 billion revenue.
• A case study of India's HCL Technologies highlights how this global leader applied The 7 Essentials to achieve exceptional growth.
• How The 7 Essentials can be applied to any business, regardless of industry, country or economic cycle.
• How Inside-Outside Leadership is important to all growth companies, and
• Access to online scoring tools to help teams apply The 7 Essentials, create an actionable 7 Essentials Roadmap, and measure success as your company grows!

Thomson and the Blueprint Growth Institute developed The 7 Essentials Scorecard as a unique tool to benchmark performance.  As Thomson explains, “The 7 Essentials are more than a set of fundamentals and actions; when linked, they create a systems approach to creating leverage that leads to achieving compounding growth.” Through the use of positive feedback loops with “Marquee Customers” and “Alliance Partners,” companies can ensure that their growth can build every year, not just when economic times are good.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice from founders and executives, MASTERING THE 7 ESSENTIALS OF HIGH-GROWTH COMPANIES is a practical guide for results-oriented management teams looking for a set of principles and a course of action to improve their opportunities to grow.

This book provides a time-tested blueprint to grow your business of any size, in any industry or whether it is a public, private, or business unit of a larger corporation.