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Webinars & Podcasts

The Art of Entrepreneurship at Scale (Podcast)

Three Principles for Achieving Long-Term Growth (Webinar)

Three Principles for Achieving Long-Term Growth (Webinar)

This podcast will examine three questions:

  • What are the success factors and pitfalls underlying the creation of a successful Engine 2 business?
  • What are some of the keys to creating entrepreneurial conditions of business building at scale in existing organizations?
  • How do you know if it is time for you to invest in an Engine 2?

Three Principles for Achieving Long-Term Growth (Webinar)

Three Principles for Achieving Long-Term Growth (Webinar)

Three Principles for Achieving Long-Term Growth (Webinar)

This Webinar focuses on 3 Lessons:

  • Why companies fail to achieve growth targets
  • The predictable crises growing companies experience
  • Three principles for achieving and sustaining growth

Videos

The Founder's Mentality Overview

This short video explains how the three elements of the Founder's Mentality—an insurgent mission, a frontline obsession and an owner's mindset—are key to driving sustained profitable growth.

Founder's Mentality and the Paths to Sustainable Growth

Most fast-growing companies aspire to global leadership in their industries. They often start as insurgents: fast, agile and adaptable. But to win in the long term they must scale, often losing what we call the Founder's Mentality.

Here is a link to a wide range of videos done at Bain & Company and curated on their website. https://www.bain.com/search/?searchValue=zook&filters=%7Ctypes%28418%29&pageNumber=0


Additional Videos

Over the years, Jimmy Allen and I have done a large number of webinars and videos related to our books and research. These were focused on the sources and predictable crises related to the search for growth. They can all be easily found on YouTube, on the Bain.com website, foundersmentality.com, and on HBR.org


Articles & Selected Writings

Here is a selected list of articles over the years related to the search for sustainable growth and lessons learned from two decades of research on the topic The articles in HBR can all be found and purchased at the Harvard Business Review website, others can be found at the links provided. 


Selected Harvard Business Review Articles 

Desperately Seeking Growth: The Virtues of Tending to Your Core, Chris Zook Harvard Management Update, 2001 

Growth Outside the Core, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, December 2003

Finding Your Next Core Business, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, April 2007

The Great Repeatable Model, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, November 2011

The New Rules for Growing Outside Your Core Business, Harvard Business Review, May 4, 2015

Reigniting Growth: How to Reverse a Sudden Slowdown, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, March 2016

Maintaining Your Focus at the Front Lines as Your Company Grows, Chris Zook, September 1, 2016

How Boards Can Assess the Health of their Companies, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, November 2, 2016

When Large Companies are Better at Entrepreneurship than Startups, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, December 27, 2016


Selected Writings Published by Bain & Company 

Many articles (Bain Briefs) and research reports from our work on growth have been self-published by Bain & Company: 

Founder’s Mentality: The Path to Scale Insurgency, Chris Zook, James Allen, Dunigan O’Keefe, May 2013

The Engine 2 Imperative: New Business Innovation and Profitable Growth under Turbulence, Chris Zook, James Allen, and Dunigan O’Keefe, December 2020


Note: The Engine 2 work is the most recent direct extension of our growth work and The Founder’s Mentality as it pertains to large companies concerned with creating new businesses at scale to replace or protect their core.


Here are two links to access the Bain briefs and research on the host site Bain.com

  • https://www.bain.com/search/?searchValue=zook&pageNumber=0&filters=%7Ctypes%28426%
  • https://www.bain.com/search/?searchValue=zook&filters=%7Ctypes%28427%29&pageNumber=0

Most Recent Work

New research on how companies are using the principles of entrepreneurship on the inside and embracing new waves of technological innovation to create large new core businesses that build on the capabilities of the existing core. 

https://hbr.org/2022/05/when-your-business-needs-a-second-growth-engine


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