Know what matters lessons from a lifetime of transformations
"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading an...
| Main Author: | Shaich, Ron (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Harvard Business Review Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part one: Living the entrepreneurial life. Future back
- Competitive advantage is everything
- Means, ends, and by-products
- Entrepreneurs are opportunists
- Think before you IPO
- You take the money; I'll take control
- Feeding the growth monster
- Empathy unlocks the future
- Discovering today what matters tomorrow
- Defining what you stand for
- Getting it done
- You don't own the business; the business owns you
- Business (and life) requires hard choices
- Part two: Leading a large enterprise. Develop with discipline
- Break the cycle of failure
- Innovator in chief
- Make smart bets
- Seek out the tough stuff and create a barrier to entry
- Know when to fold 'em
- If you don't have control, credibility is your currency
- The doing of the doing
- Business would be easier without people
- Parish priest in a business suit
- Be contrarian : conserve in a boom, build in a bust
- Business is personal
- Part three: Driving large-scale transformation. Managing the desire/friction ratio
- Making the transformation operational
- Finding new runways for growth
- Come clean
- with yourself and others
- Keep your promises
- Know when to sell
- Epilogue: Transformation never ends.