The bestselling, award-winning classic on how maverick companies have
passed up the growth treadmill to focus on gretness, now in a revised
and updated tenth-anniversary edition.
It
has long been a business article of faith that great companies, by
definition, constantly focus on maximizing their revenues year after
year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a growing number of undeniably great
compabnies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on
more satisfying business goals.
Veteran
journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen of these
remarkable comapnies that have chosen to march to their own drummer. He
shows the leaders of these small giants recognized the full range
of choices they had about the type of company they could create and
made the choice to pursue greateness by placing other goals ahead of
getting as big as possible as fast as possible. And he shows how we can
all benefit by questioning the conventional definitions of business
success."