Matthew E. May is a recognized thought leader and author of five bestselling books, including The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation(2006) and Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking (2016). He is a founding partner of StraTechia LLC, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm.
What a Unicorn Knows
By Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez
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Offered as a playbook for exponential growth, What a Unicorn Knows offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed.
Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide readers with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.
Description
What a Unicorn Knows is your company’s best guide to becoming a well-oiled, high-velocity machine for growth on its way to billion-dollar valuation.
Why do some young companies become unicorns, while others don’t?
It’s easy for scale-ups, giddy from early startup success, to get ahead of themselves and stumble. It’s even easier to be slowed down by the many forces of resistance working against them: drag, inertia, friction, and waste.
Offered as a playbook for exponential growth, What a Unicorn Knows offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed.
Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide readers with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.
Called The Unicorn Model™ and built on five foundational principles, the authors deliver a compelling narrative of stories and experiences in an easy-to-remember mnemonic, S.C.A.L.E.:
- Strategic speed
- Constant experimentation
- Accelerated value
- Lean process
- Esprit de corps
Drawn from the authors’ successful track record in using S.C.A.L.E. with a wide variety of unicorn-level companies, What a Unicorn Knows offers a necessary guide for rapid but lasting growth. As more companies than ever vie for unicorn status, competitive edge will depend on learning from the best. The Unicorn Model™ promises to keep your company speeding toward lasting marketplace success.
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About the Authors
Matthew E. May
Pablo Dominguez
Pablo Dominguez is an operating partner at Insight Partners, a leading Manhattan-based private equity firm. He leads the Sales and Customer Success Center of Excellence for Insight OnSite, the firm’s advisory arm.
Publication Details
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781637742815
Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 1 in.
Weight: 1 lbs.
Publication Date: February 2023
Format: E-book (epub)
ISBN: 9781637742822
Publication Date: February 2023