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And externally, how do customers regard this business? Is pricing too high or too low to be optimal for the market? Are there any trends in government regulations or political policies that could help or hurt the business?
Brad Jacobs • How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
The companies I was looking for all operated on what you might call human scale, that is, a size at which it’s still possible for an individual to be acquainted with everyone else in the organization, still possible for the CEO to meet with new hires, still possible for employees to feel closely connected to the rest of the company.
Bo Burlingham • Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition
Service businesses especially are difficult to make monopolies.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
BUSINESSES AROUND THE WORLD have entered a rich and turbulent era of experimentation.
Carol Sanford • The Regenerative Business
psychology of profitability as a central element in the organization’s culture.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
indentifying the meaning of the enterprise translated into finding a purpose in the business beyond making money.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Clayton M. Christensen: The New Church of Finance: Deeply held belief systems and complex codes must be changed
Clayton M. Christensendeseret.com
The bigger our businesses have become, the more diluted our personal impact upon them becomes, and the more likely our relationship with our businesses is to be estranged. The more estranged the relationship, the more difficult it is for a business to serve as a reflection of anyone's authentic values. Instead, our businesses mutate into impersonal
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