April 2003

Double-Digit Growth in No-Growth Times

From the book How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotsky and Richard Wise with Karl Weber. Copyright 2003 by Mercer Management Consulting, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Warner Books, Inc., New York, NY. All rights reserved.It's every company's goal -- but it's one that few manage to achieve. Here are strategies and tactics to make your company grow again, drawn from in-depth research on companies that have been registering double-digit growth for years. Tired of cutting costs and downsizing dreams? This is your wake-up call.
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How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

... Its performance is the envy of executives and engineers around the world ... For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance ... For Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) ... But Google is also a case study in savvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous accountability, and relentless attention to detail ... Here's a search for the growth secrets of one of the world's most exciting young companies -- a company from which every company can learn.
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Book | Memo to CEOs: It Is All About You
Michael Maccoby's new book, The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership (Broadway Books), is either a case of really bad timing or a prescient manifesto packed with counterintuitive insight. At a time when the backlash against larger-than-life celebrity CEOs is in full swing, Maccoby's argument is that we need these charismatic visionaries more than ever. It's time for a new theory of leadership, he says.
Speedometer: Special Global Economy Edition

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.
Cheat Sheet

How to Speak Business This Month.

Fast Talk: The New IT Agenda

CIOs and CTOs offer straight talk about their most strategic investments (and how they justify them).

Do You Know How to Grow?

Recessions can persist due to any of a variety of causes: the bursting of an overinflated economic bubble, overinvestment and business speculations that lead to a crash, criminal behavior that sours people's faith in the economy, the cloud of war and uncertainty that puts everything on hold -- or, as is the case today, all of the above. But recoveries all begin from the same simple premise: growth. If the past 25 years have taught us anything, it is this one lesson: You cannot cut, outsource, or downsize your way to economic success; you have to grow.