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Title: Value-Creating Growth : How to Lift Your Company to the Next Level of Performance by Thomas L. Doorley, John M. Donovan ISBN: 0787946613 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5

Rating: 5
Summary: Practical yet well researched book about business growth
Comment: The authors offer great insight into the effect of growth on a business valuation. They back their conclusions with considerable research as well as real life examples. The examples used go across many different businesses and many different situations. Many businesses books are filled with only stories. The authors of this book have presented more than stories. They have presented research, experience, analysis, and insight. I would recommend this book to any manager who is interested in the whys and hows to achieve growth and enhanced value in his/her business. There's a lot of good information in this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Effective, practical lessons for Boards of Directors
Comment: As a Director of TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq TMPW)I have observed a remarkable correlation between the lessons in Value Creating Growth and the performance of our Company. The example of commitment to growth set by our CEO, Andy McKelvey, has spread throughout the organization on a global scale and has clearly been the driver of increasingly high levels of performance. We have seen the rewards of growth in virtually all dimensions of our business, from customers to investors to an ever growing population of associates throughout the world. One thing seems clear, as we expand through Europe into Australia and now into Asia Pacific: Value in any language (or currency) is driven by thoughtful growth, and the authors have shown us a compelling method for achieving it.

I have recently joined the Board of a technology company, Ortel Corporation, and will be sharing this book with the executive team and fellow Directors as we rev up the growth engine.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Practical Guidebook for Growth
Comment: VALUE-CREATING GROWTH, "How to lift your company to the Next Level of Performance" by Doorley and Donovan of Deloitte & Touche, offers sensible advice on how companies should grow, that is backed by solid well-documented research. The language throughout the book is crisp, terse and not difficult to follow, even for a business layman. Throughout the book, a brief "Takeaway" summarizes the theme of the chapter, and frequent graphs illustrate the examples discussed. The precepts the book espouses hinge on classic concepts, for example a "Valuable Formula" rather than trendy catch phrases, and are backed by specific examples. The book could become a "guidebook for growth" for companies who study the instructions and follow the strategies it oulines. I would be more than happy to recommend VALUE CREATING GROWTH as an example of how to write a business book to a writers' workshop at the Writing Center, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, or to a business writing panel at MMC's annual Writer's Conference.

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