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How long does it take to read Scaling Up?

How a Few Companies Make It… and Why the Rest Don’t

Verne Harnish

Scaling Up by Verne Harnish takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 59 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2014. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 19 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 59 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging through the sand. To make matters worse, the increased revenues have not turned into more profitability, so at some point they wonder if the journey is worth the effort. This book focuses on the four major decisions every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. The book includes a series of One-Page tools including the One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits Execution Checklist, which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully.

Subjects: Small business, management, Small business, Organizational effectiveness, Success in business, Business, Growth

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