{"product_id":"blueprint-to-a-billion-7-essentials-to-achieve-exponential-growth-9780471747475","title":"Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth","description":"\u003cb\u003ePraise for BLUEPRINT TO A BILLION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful, well thought out analysis of entrepreneurship and leadership of a growth company.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Howard Lester, Chairman, Williams-Sonoma, Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this is a fascinating down-to-earth study that you must read. Apply the seven essential principles to your business and you are off and running. Learn about strategy, growth, leadership, team building, and a whole lot more.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Joe Scarlett, Chairman of the Board, Tractor Supply Company\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Blueprint to a Billion is a well-researched and thoughtfully written book that quantifies the growth pattern of America's highest growth companies.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eighty percent of the top-performing stocks in the last twenty years were small entrepreneurial companies that had an IPO in the prior eight years. Blueprint to a Billion tells you the seven key things these innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies.\"\u003cbr\u003e --William J. O'Neil, Chairman and Founder Investor's Business Daily, www.investors.com\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Thomson has written a masterful work that will catalyze, empower, inspire, motivate, and illuminate entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. The world needs this book and will profit from it in manifold ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e --David M. Darst, Managing Director, Individual Investor Group Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID G. THOMSON\u003c\/b\u003e has been leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales\/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey \u0026amp; Company. Thomson graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627865477394,"sku":"9780471747475","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blueprint-to-a-billion-7-essentials-to-achieve-exponential-growth-9780471747475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}