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In 2020, engineering firm Velentium faced an unprecedented ask: partner with a small medical device company and a very large vehicle manufacturer to increase emergency ventilator production from hundreds per month to thousands per week--in just twenty-eight days. Serving on the frontlines of pandemic response is enough pressure to cause any size business to buckle, but the small firm thrived and even doubled in size to complete their manufacturing scale-up known as Project V: seven months of work in six weeks. Velentium's cofounder Dan Purvis attributes their extraordinary success to their decade-in-the-making company culture, which buoyed them in the face of an unforeseeable crisis. In 28 Days to Save the World, he lays out how to harness the power of organizational culture to prepare your small business to weather any challenges ahead. Every quarter, more than 30 million small-business entrepreneurs face innumerable familiar crises that can spell their doom. Drawing from his twenty-five years of experience as a small-business leader, and with gripping stories from Project V, Purvis reveals crisis-tested methods for turning challenges into opportunities.

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"A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan Purvis has deep experience with small business. An engineering graduate of Texas A&M with an MBA from Rice University, Dan brings twenty-five years of practical know-how in creating corporate environments that people want to work in and clients want to engage. Dan realized that if you seek revenue first, relegate ""culture"" to a poster slogan, and shoehorn in customer care, you'll reap dysfunction. But if you make promises you keep, put client success ahead of your own, protect your people and keep operations human-then loyalty, referrals, growth, and profit will follow. And the way you do that is through culture. Velentium, Dan's current firm, began as a two-person operation in 2012. It now ranks #32 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing engineering companies nationwide, and has averaged 50% annual growth for nearly a decade. Dan's purpose in writing 28 Days to Save the World is to share his insights, mistakes, and experience in building successful cultures with other leaders, so that together, we can make the world a better place to be human. At age fifteen, Jason Smith founded his first company, a residential landscape design and installation service. Fueled by polymathic curiosity, Jason subsequently worked in a variety of industries: real estate, property management, nonprofits, trade associations, higher education, and now, medical device development. Ian Putnam has many years of experience working in the arts as a teacher, actor, writer, painter, singer, and musician. He is passionate about books in general, including reading for pleasure and research, and especially narrating audiobooks. Ian has over twelve years of middle and high school teaching experience in the arts, and worked professionally as a performer in Los Angeles for seven years. He has played in several bands and recorded three albums, with musical interests including jazz, classical, rock, and musical theater. He currently leads his jazz band as its singer and enjoys playing classical piano and spending lots of meaningful time with his wife, daughter, and pets in Santa Barbara."

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