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Recent News
2009
07/07/09 McFarland to keynote Super Session at 2009 Inc. 5000 Conference.
03/01/09 Random House wins right to publish McFarland’s second book, Bounce, due out September 15.
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2008
4/9/08 Restaurant.com adopts RED™.
Restaurant.com is the nation’s leading provider of online promotion and support to restaurants across the U.S.
4/1/08 MIT Sloan Management Review publishes Keith McFarland’s new article “Should You Build Strategy Like Software?”
The article provides case studies of two companies' experience implementing the Rapid Enterprise Development (RED™) process.
3/27/08 Orange County Breakthrough Company event draws several hundred executives.
Keith McFarland spoke at the event, which was held at the Center Club in Costa Mesa.
3/26/08 Los Angeles-area executives attend speech and book signing for The Breakthrough Company.
The event was held at the Radisson Hotel in West Los Angeles.
3/25/08 The Breakthrough Company book tour visits Ventura County.
The event for CEOs and senior executives was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, California.
3/19/08 Irving/Los Colinas Chamber of Commerce hosts The Breakthrough Company Event.
Several hundred executives were on hand for Keith McFarland’s book tour event for the Dallas community.
3/13/08 250 Senior Executives gather in Fort Lauderdale to learn how to create breakthrough performance in their companies.
The event was attended by the members and key executives of the Miami, America's Gateway, and Palm Beach YPO chapters and the EO South Florida Chapter.
3/13/08 Keith McFarland keynotes “CEO of the Year” annual awards banquet for the Palm Beach Business Journal.
3/12/08 Watkins Incorporated begins RED™ engagement.
Winona, Minnesota-based Watkins Inc. recently engaged McFarland Strategy Partners to assist in the creation of a 36-month strategy. Watkins is a leader in the production of healthy and natural personal care products, cleaning products, and spices.
3/11/08 Sell-out crowd gathers in Philadelphia to hear McFarland talk about The Breakthrough Company.
The event was held at The Union League Club in downtown Philadelphia.
3/6/08 University Club in Chicago hosts oversold crowd for “Getting Breakthrough Performance” workshop.
The event was jointly sponsored by the Windy City and Chicagoland YPO chapters.
3/4/08 Dallas Aviation Museum is the site for “Getting Breakthrough Performance” workshop.
The event attracted several hundred CEOs and members of their management team, and was attended by Roger Staubach, founder and chairman of the Staubach Company, and Bob Funk, founder and chairman of Express Employment Professionals.
3/2/08 The Breakthrough Company hits Businessweek’s monthly best seller list.
2/29/08 McFarland keynotes Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Global Leadership Conference in Sydney Australia.
1,500 CEOs from more than 60 countries were on hand for his address at the Sydney Opera House.
2/19/08 Several hundred senior executives gather in Washington D.C. to learn how to build breakthrough performance.
The event, held at the Reagan International Trade Center was designed for growth company CEOs and their management teams.
2/16/08 McFarland delivers keynote address to more than 2,000 people at the annual meeting of Express Employment Professionals Company.
The Oklahoma City-based company is the largest franchise-based employment services company in the nation.
2/14/08 Nearly 300 executives attend “Getting Breakthrough Performance” Workshop in Minneapolis.
The event was hosted by the YPO Twin Cities Chapter.
2/13/08 Keith McFarland keynotes two events in Winona, Minnesota.
Events were hosted by the Winona Rotary Club and Winona State University.
2/6/08 The Breakthrough Company Draws Sell-Out Crowd in New York.
More than 300 chief executives participated in a ½-day workshop based on the book.
1/26/08 The Breakthrough Company hits USA Today best seller list.
1/26/08 The Breakthrough Company hits #1 on the Wall Street Journal best seller list.
1/25/08 The Breakthrough Company hits the New York Times best seller list in its debut week.
The book was the highest ranked business book on the list.
1/17/08 Keith McFarland kicks off 32-stop book tour for The Breakthrough Company in Salt Lake City.
Over the next four months, he will speak to groups from 200 to 2,000 people in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and many other major U.S. cities.
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2007
12/25/2007 U.S. News and World Report calls The Breakthrough Company "Best in Business" Bookshelf.
Book editor Justin Ewers praised that "McFarland tries to do for small businesses what Good to Great did for big ones."
12/21/07 Fast Company names Keith McFarland’s The Breakthrough Company one of three “Smart Books for 2008."
Book editor Kate Bonomici Flaim hailed the book "A blueprint for companies looking to break out and create lasting growth."
12/7/07 Keith McFarland keynotes Fastenal Corporation’s Annual Sales Conference.
More than 2,000 employees, vendors, and partners attended the event—where McFarland talked about his upcoming book The Breakthrough Company.
11/7/07 Flexfab initiates a RED™.
Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Flexfab is a leading provider of engineered silicon parts to the automotive, industrial, and aerospace industries.
11/6/07 Keith McFarland addresses the Staubach Leadership Council.
His address to the top 65 leaders of the firm was to provide them with an advance look at his upcoming book, The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers. Staubach is one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate brokers, with 60+ offices in the U.S. and affiliate offices overseas.
10/15/07 George Smith Partners adopts RED™.
GSP is one of the leading commercial real estate lending consultants in the nation, headquartered in Los Angeles.
9/25/07 Sokolin LLC initiates a RED™ engagement.
The nation’s largest distributor of fine collectible wines recently announced that it has secured McFarland Strategy Partners to craft a strategy to greatly increase its global presence over the next 36 months.
7/30/07 Amercable Inc. begins fifth year of Rapid Enterprise Development (RED™) process.
Using the RED™ process, Amercable has increased annual revenues over the past four years from $50 million to over $150 million.
6/21/07 USA Bouquet hires McFarland to build a three year growth plan.
USA Bouquet is one of the nation’s leading distributors of fresh-cut flowers, and floral supplies to mass market stores, grocery and drug stores, convenience stores, and ecommerce retailers.
6/15/07 Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes magazine, says McFarland’s upcoming book “has the makings of a classic.”
Other early reviewers with positive comments include Stephen Covey, Jack Kemp, Napster president Brad Duea, Stanford Business School Professor Bill Barnett, and Mattel CEO Bob Eckert.
5/24/07 Keith McFarland keynotes the FdG Associates Annual Retreat.
FdG Associates, a private equity group that provides capital to promising growth companies, held their annual retreat in New York City.
4/30/07 Pete Lien & Sons initiates a RED™ engagement.
Key executives from Pete Lien & Sons, a leading provider of rock, concrete, sand, gravel, block, steel, lime, and pulverized limestone in the Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming regions, assembled for the three-day RED™ strategy session.
4/26/07 Specialty Sports Venture adopts RED™.
Thirty-nine top key executives from Specialty Sports Venture—comprised of more than 120 premier ski, bike, golf, and fly fishing shops nationwide—met for a three-day Strategy Summit to devise an aggressive growth plan over the next three years.
4/24/07 Breakthrough Draws Record Crowds for YPO Michigan West Chapter.
Breakthrough draws another sell-out crowd, the largest turnout for a single event in YPO Michigan West chapter history. More than 200 members and their key executives convened to get a “sneak peak” on the findings in McFarland’s upcoming book.
4/10/07 Cherry Creek Mortgage engages McFarland Strategy Partners.
Cherry Creek Mortgage, ranked the 49th largest retail lender in America, will utilize the Rapid Enterprise Development process to assist in creating and implementing a three-year growth plan.
3/15/07 Shamrock Foods renews contract with McFarland Strategy Partners.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Shamrock Foods—the seventh largest U.S. foodservice distributor—renews its contract for strategic advisory services with McFarland Strategy Partners for a second consecutive year.
2/28/07 Keith McFarland keynotes YPO Developing Your Management Team Seminar at Scottsdale.
Thirty-five YPO CEOs gathered for a three-day educational program at beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona. McFarland gave a keynote address on the TAIS review, the first step in developing your management team.
1/17/07 Random House wins bid to publish Keith McFarland’s upcoming book, The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers.
Random House Publishing has agreed to publish The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers—which is the result of more than five years of empirical study of the 7000+ firms that have been listed in the Inc. 500 since Inc. Magazine began publishing the list. Breakthrough is scheduled to be published in the first quarter of 2008.
1/16/07 Sunrise Windows signs on for 2nd year contract with McFarland Strategy Partners.
Sunrise Windows, one of the nation’s most innovative providers of custom replacement windows, will utilize the Rapid Enterprise Development process for its domestic business for a second year.
1/11/07 LeftHand Networks hires McFarland Strategy Partners.
Thirty-six top managers for Colorado-based LeftHand Networks, the leader in Clustered Open iSCSI SANs, recently met for a RED™ with Brett Pinegar of McFarland Strategy Partners to map out an aggressive growth strategy for the firm. Founded in 1999, the company pioneered the IP SAN market with its first Ethernet-based storage area network in late 2001.
1/10/07 Simms Fishing adopts RED™.
Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, Simms Fishing—the world's premier fly-fishing gear company—recently announced the signing of an agreement with McFarland Strategy Partners to revamp a corporate strategy to increase its sales growth by 100% over the next three years.
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