Daring to Compete : Accelerate Your Business to Market Leadership with EY's 7 Drivers of Growth.

Intro -- Daring to Compete -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1. Daring to compete - understanding the DNA of entrepreneurs -- Chapter 1. What is the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year? -- Chapter 2. What are the EY 7 Drivers of Growth™? -- Chapter 3. Do you have the E-gene? -- Passion -- Drive -- Agility -- Inspirational leadership -- Team building and motivating -- Relationship building -- Humility and confidence -- Vision and focus -- A hunger for learning -- Learning from failure -- Resilience -- Values focused -- Societal impact -- Part 2. What success looks like: 15 stories from the "Winner's Circle" -- Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs based in the Americas -- Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs based in Asia Pacific -- Chapter 6. Entrepreneurs based in the United Kingdom, Europe -- Part 3. Understanding EY's 7 Drivers of Growth -- Chapter 7. Driver #1: Customer "No customers, no business" -- Products, markets, and channels -- Marketing -- Sales and Pricing -- Chapter 8. Driver #2: People, Behaviors, and Culture "Cutting stone or building a cathedral?" -- Capability -- Leadership -- Performance management and rewards -- Innovation -- Chapter 9. Driver #3: Digital Technology and Analytics "The new industrial revolution" -- Digital enterprise -- Data and analytics -- Security and privacy -- Chapter 10. Driver #4: Operations "From surviving to thriving" -- Operations strategy -- Operational excellence and continuous improvement -- Operational resilience and sustainability -- Purpose and social responsibility -- Chapter 11. Driver #5: Funding and Finance "Failing to plan is planning to fail" -- Funding growth -- Growth story -- Determine how much you need for different purposes -- Identifying when you will need the funds -- Evaluating different capital alternatives and where to source them.

People and organization for an effective finance function -- Finance processes and controls for an effective finance function -- Data and technology for an effective finance function -- Stakeholder management -- Chapter 12. Driver #6: Transactions and Alliances "Right transaction, right price, right time" -- Transaction strategy and planning -- International expansion -- Partnerships and alliances -- What are my needs and objectives? -- How do I select the best partners? -- Why do I think my needs can best be addressed by a partnership or alliance? -- When do I want the relationship to begin and how long should it continue? -- Who will be responsible on both sides for managing the relationship? -- Transaction effectiveness -- Maximizing transaction value -- Structuring the transaction -- Valuing the target -- Due diligence, deal negotiation, and structuring -- Integrating the business and extracting intended value -- Chapter 13. Driver #7: Risk "Threat or opportunity" -- Creating value from risk management -- Stakeholder management -- Policies, procedures, and compliance -- Governance -- EY 7 Drivers of Growth: many success stories -- Part 4. Traits, skills, and the importance of intuition -- Chapter 14. World-class Entrepreneurs and building sustainable market-leading companies -- No excuses! -- Necessity and survival are strong motivators -- A strong work ethic and a deep sense of personal responsibility -- Competitive spirit -- Natural curiosity and a desire to understand how things work and fix them if they don't -- A desire to solve problems, correct unfairness, and improve communities by fighting for what you believe in -- Self-confidence -- Understand the power of the kitchen table effect -- Integrity -- Leadership -- Intuition -- Appendix -- About the authors -- About EY -- Index -- EULA.

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