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Scaling Up Excellence
The book in one sentence
Growing a business is easy to start and hard to do well: the real challenge is spreading the right mindset and behaviour from a few people to many without losing what made them good.
Who it's for
Founders whose company is outgrowing the original team, managers rolling out a practice across sites or departments, and anyone asked to make a successful pilot work everywhere.
The big idea
Two Stanford professors spent around seven years studying how organisations spread excellence, from start-ups to hospitals to global firms. They call the central difficulty the problem of more: how to take something that works well in one place and get it working in more places, with more people, without diluting it. Their answer is that scaling is not a one-off launch. It is a slow, messy campaign that has to win hearts and change habits, not just copy processes or open new offices.
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