During the past ten years Dr. Ron Wood (founder of The Wood Research Institute LLC) has engaged in research studying businesses worldwide to learn why some companies, despite relentless internal and external forces that assail them from all sides, are able to sustain positive business results and provide consistent value for their customers. In his research, Dr. Wood has found that there are some companies that are able to achieve sustained high performance success despite many challenges. His research describes how some companies were able to sustain business growth with profitability for twenty-five years or more. Dr. Wood analyzed over 73,728 publicly owned companies, and discovered that only thirty-eight companies were able to sustain revenue growth and profitability for twenty-five years or longer. His handbook breaks down what they did to achieve consecutive and consistent growth in revenues and profits. The key theme of this book is how businesses are built to last and sustain consistent and positive business results. This new book, Building Businesses That Last - In the Value Zone provides the background research for the newly released companion book Business VIAGRA - Sustaining High Performance in the Value Zone which describes how you can achieve sustainable High Performance. The key theme of this new book is how to create Vitality in your enterprise by using Intelligence to solve problems creating Actionable strategies that results in sustained Growth while Reacting to change and accepting Accountability for the results.