Managing growth: Success solutions

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June, 2010 from Profit Magazine – “Maybe they have a God complex, but entrepreneurs tend to create companies in their own image — an extension of their personalities, skill sets, values, work ethics and (mostly) egos. This works through the startup phase, the early growth phase and even the what-initially-looks-like-maturity phase. But this creation inevitably hits a ceiling when, suddenly, the company no longer looks like its founders at all. It has outgrown them.…”

180 View by Cleo Chmielinski – The author is CEO of one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies for 2 years running, Inbox Marketer.  What struck me about the article was that it reminded me of several owner/manager companies I’ve worked with in the past, where the entrepreneurial founder eventually comes to terms with the fact that growth requires investment in external help, HR policies, systems and optimized business processes.

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