The Growing Business Handbook: Inspiration and Advice from Successful Entrepreneurs and Fast Growing UK Companies

433 Pages·2008·2.1 MB·English

by  Adam Jolly

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This book has been endorsed by the Institute of Directors.
The endorsement is given to selected Kogan Page books which the IoD recognises as being of specific
interest to its members and providing them with up-to-date, informative and practical resources for
creating business success. Kogan Page books endorsed by the IoD represent the most authoritative
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time of going to press, and the publishers and authors cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions,
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First published by Kogan Page Limited in 1997 as CBI Growing Business Handbook
Fourth edition published in 2001 as IOD Growing Business Handbook
Seventh edition published in 2004 as The Growing Business Handbook
Eigth edition 2006
Ninth edition 2007
Tenth edition 2008
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ISBN 978 0 7494 5055 7
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The growing business handbook : inspiration and advice from successful entrepreneurs and fast growing
UK companies / [edited by] Adam Jolly. – – 10th ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7494-5055-7
1. Success in business. 2. Management. 3. Small business– –Growth.
4. Entrepreneurship. I. Jolly, Adam.
HF5386.G787 2008
658– –dc22
2007037069
Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press
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