Scaling Up addresses the second half of the venture ball game, something often lost in all the hoopla about incubating disruptive innovation during the first half. Half-time scores don’t matter-it’s all about how you finish the game. So get yourself into Verne’s locker room for a great half-time pep talk, and then get yourself out on the field to play a great second half.

Verne’s tools and techniques have been key to scaling up Benetton to become the #1 international fashion brand in India. They work!

Scaling up a significant business requires precisely the kind of discipline and focus detailed in Verne’s practical and ‘how-to’ driven book.

Fast-growing companies — not small ones or big ones — create almost all the jobs and innovation in our economy, and Verne has been an invaluable guide to leaders of such companies, like me. Scaling Up helps us put in place the disciplines critical to building a significant business.

Verne delivers more value per page than anyone else in the business!

Verne Harnish has once again proven he’s the Growth Guy. Scaling Up is packed with the tools to help you bust through the barriers to growth and climb learning curves faster. But don’t let your leadership team carry the load alone — multiply your impact by sharing the book with every employee on your team.

The idea of guiding a company from the small tide pools to the big seas of business can be exhilarating, but also daunting without a detailed set of directions. Scaling Up provides those directions, along with a remarkably detailed map for how to get there safe and happy.

We’ve scaled up our company from a single office near Calgary to 2,000 employees in 165 locations across Western Canada. Verne’s tools and techniques have been critical to helping us drive and manage this growth during my 20 years as CEO — and ultimately to freeing me up as the founder to pursue other interests.

Verne Harnish is more committed to helping companies grow than any other person on the planet. Really. He’s also radically practical in his approach and that is reflected throughout this terrific book.

Imagine walking into a library and finding one book that captures the ideas of all the books in the library. Scaling Up is that business book. You will not have to go any farther.

Delivers the practical lessons that most B-schools don’t. If you want to grow your business faster, buy Scaling Up, turn to Chapter 14, and read ‘The Power of One.’ Not next week. Not tomorrow. Now.

Scaling Up is a blueprint for building a growth company. With this book, Verne has pulled back the curtain on how the fastest-growing companies in the world fuel their growth. Scaling Up gives you an insider’s view into the inner workings of the most successful companies on earth. A must-read for an ambitious entrepreneur.

The book is fantastic in the sense that it provides all the facts, proven methods, tools and techniques specifically required by an organization at the stage we are at. What is most laughable about your book is within 2 chapters you have already identified what consultants consistently miss in regards to complexity. Anyone scaling a business regardless of what you know should use this book to learn a thing or two. If you’re not already thinking about these concepts and have gotten thus far then kudos I hope you still have your sanity.

I have never enjoyed reading a book so much, in years!