Peter Meyer

Can a business accelerate in size and scope without speeding out of control? It's a critical question these days as organizations grapple with fast-breaking opportunities and commensurate growing pains. This book provides a proven game plan for sane, sustainable growth.
Aimed at independent businesses and high-growth corporate divisions alike, WARP-SPEED GROWTH shows how to focus on the resources that make or break fast growth--time, people, and money. It explains how managers can invest these limited resources in targeted ways to build new markets and exploit new technologies.
Rich in ready-to-use tools and reference charts, the book pays special attention to the urgent issue of finding and retaining good employees in a tight labor market. A unique index of challenges allows readers to search for solutions according to the range of real-life problems faced by fast-growth companies.

From Library Journal: Meyer heads a consulting group in California that helps businesses create and dominate markets with new products. According to Meyer, "new markets are the product of someone's recognizing a potential, finding the right solution, and bringing that solution to market in a way that works." Meyer's prescription for success in new-market ventures includes detailed discussions of the risks and rewards and the necessary skills for operational managers, executives, etc. ...Throughout these discussions, he inserts accounts of many well-known companies that engaged in these ventures (including FedEx, AOL, Microsoft, Lucent, Motorola, and Nokia) and analyzes their successes and disappointments. This timely and thought-provoking book is a good choice for corporate, academic, and public library business collections.