For nearly a decade, Keith McFarland was frustrated by the fact that he could never find a book that adequately described the steps a company could take to solve the problems involved when moving beyond the entrepreneurial stages of business toward something bigger. In the mid-1990s he had just become chairman of a Los Angelesbased company that had twice been named to Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States.He felt his company was at a turning point that would soon determine whether it would reach its full potential for exponential growth, or if it would stagnate. Wouldn’t be nice, he thought, if there was a book describing the experiences of entrepreneurs who had led their companies to whole new levels of success?