Real-world tools to build your venture, grow your business, and avoid mistakes
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup is an expert guide for emerging and established businesses to accelerate growth, facilitate scalability, and keep pace with the rapidly changing economic landscape. The contemporary marketplace is more dynamic than ever before—increased global competition, the impact of digital transformation, and disruptive innovation factors require businesses to implement agile management and business strategies to compete and thrive. This indispensable book provides business leaders and entrepreneurs the tools and guidance to meet growth and scalability challenges head on.
Equal parts motivation and practical application, this book answers the questions every business leader asks from the startup ventures to established companies. Covering topics including funding options, employee hiring, product-market validation, remote team management, agile scaling, and the business lifecycle, this essential resource provides a solid approach to grow at the right pace and stay lean. This book will enable you to:
- Apply 42 effective tools to sustain and accelerate your business growth
- Avoid the mistakes and pitfalls associated with rapid business growth or organizational change
- Develop a clear growth plan to integrate into your overall business model
- Structure your business for rapid scaling and efficient management
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean & Agile Business Growth is a must-read for entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and senior executives. Author Jurgen Appelo shares his wisdom on the creative economy, agile management, innovation marketing, and organizational change to provide a comprehensive guide to business growth. Practical methods and expert advice make this book an essential addition to any business professional’s library.
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth| Jurgen Appelo (Author)| Wiley
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1. Persistence of Vision
Chapter 2. Stories of Your Life and Others
Chapter 3. Picking Up the Pieces
Chapter 4. The Persona Protocol
Chapter 5. Fortune’s Wheel
Chapter 6. The Crowded Shadows
Chapter 7. The Lunatic Café
Chapter 8. Streams of Silver
Chapter 9. The Invention of Everything Else
Chapter 10. The Terminal Experiment
Chapter 11. Fables and Reflections
Chapter 12. Kings of the North
Chapter 13. The Entropy Tango
Chapter 14. A Pleasure to Burn
Chapter 15. The New Recruit
Chapter 16. The Enigma Score
Chapter 17. Standard Hero Behavior
Chapter 18. The Darkest Road
Chapter 19. Ghost Writer in the Sky
Chapter 20. Million-Dollar Gamble
Chapter 21. Spheres of Influence
Chapter 22. Heart Journey
Chapter 23. A Pirate’s Tale
Chapter 24. Test of the Twins
Chapter 25. Culture Clash
Epilogue
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