Building the BestNew book offers lessons from Canada's best managed companies |
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By John Hughes, Anthony Grnak and Douglas Hunter
A fascinating new book co-authored by Deloitte partners Anthony Grnak and John Hughes, and award-winning writer Douglas Hunter, offers an engaging behind-the-scenes tour of 10 of Canada’s most successful companies. "Building the Best: Lessons from Inside Canada’s Best Managed Companies" reveals how these companies overcame the challenges in their industries, and how their strategies can be applied to any business. Both Grnak and Hughes drew on their experience with Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies program — John is the current national leader and Anthony is a past leader — to choose 10 exceptional businesses that exemplify success from among the more than 500 past winners. Strategy, capability, and commitmentDrawing on candid and revealing interviews with founders, owners and senior executives of such companies as Cirque du Soleil, Harry Rosen, Armour Transportation and Boston Pizza; "Building the Best" delivers powerful lessons in how obstacles are overcome and success is achieved. Hard-earned experience is engagingly conveyed through interview, anecdote and industry-specific analysis. Each company’s story illustrates one of the elements of the three vital building blocks to sustainable growth: strategy, capability and commitment. The companies also provide a fascinating window into the industries in which they operate. Readers learn what it takes to craft a prize-winning cabernet sauvignon, create a dazzling circus performance that has toured the world for over a decade, be first to market with children’s products, build a major museum or carve out a dominant niche in the business-to-business Internet market.
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