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Faster Company : Building the World's Nuttiest, Turn-on-a-Dime, Home-Grown, Billion-Dollar Business, Paperback / softback Book

Faster Company : Building the World's Nuttiest, Turn-on-a-Dime, Home-Grown, Billion-Dollar Business Paperback / softback

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An unconventional management book by an unconventional businessman: how Patrick Kelly built a company where everybody works hard, has a great time, makes a ton of money--and leaves competitors wondering what hit them. Patrick Kelly is the founder of Physician Sales & Service (PSS), which in only 15 years has gone from a start-up company in the mundane business of distributing medical supplies to doctors' offices to the industry leader with $1 billion in revenues.

Its annual growth rate is nearly 60% and today it has 3,600 employees. What's Kelly's secret? A dynamic, even nutty culture! PSS employees can fire their bosses. Truck drivers have "CEO" on their business cards. There are no policy manuals. The company's leaders--there's no such thing as a "manager" at PSS--are required to study Plato and Dostoevsky.

Many have become millionaires, and despite the pressure, they love their jobs.

PSS is that most unusual of organizations--a fast-track, high-growth business that's also a great place to work. Kelly himself is the ultimate success story: after growing up in an orphanage, flunking out of college, and serving in Viet Nam, he built an incredibly successful career--his way.

In Faster Company, he tells you how he did it--how he built the company that has been dubbed "a cross between the U.S.

Marines and Animal House." Patrick Kelly (Jacksonville, Florida) is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Physician Sales & Service (PSS)/World Medical, Inc.

It is the fastest-growing company in the history of the medical supply industry, with annual revenues for this year projected at $1 billion.

Among his many awards, Kelly just received (along with Ted Turner) the Horatio Alger Award for 1997.

John Case (Cambridge, MA) is editor-at-large for Inc.

Magazine, and is the author of several books, including The Open-Book Experience. Marketing: * National Publicity Campaign. * 5-City Events Tour. * National Advertising in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review. * Author Column in Inc. Magazine.

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