Navigating the Whitewater Rapids of Entrepreneurial Success
eBook - ePub

Navigating the Whitewater Rapids of Entrepreneurial Success

Leading Small Business Growth

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Navigating the Whitewater Rapids of Entrepreneurial Success

Leading Small Business Growth

About this book

This book provides entrepreneurs with a clear, specific road map to successful business and growth management, explaining the vital details of techniques for executing changes in day-to-day business operations to handle rapid business growth. For many entrepreneurs, the transition from start-up to rapid growth is the most difficult and risky time for them and their companies. Failure to manage business growth occurs not because entrepreneurs choose the wrong growth strategy; it's because leaders and employees fail to execute the right internal strategies to scale up business operations to handle market success. This book explains how to overcome the two fundamental challenges facing successful entrepreneurs as their businesses grow: how to develop the efficiency, reliability, and cost control of a successful company given the common constraints of too little time and too few resources, such as money and people, and how to achieve these essential attributes of business performance without losing the entrepreneurial creativity and spirit that made them successful in the first place. Readers will learn why so many smart entrepreneurs fail in managing business success and growth, as well as how to change day-to-day leadership approaches and techniques in moving from fledgling start-up to the rapid growth stage that involves many more expectations from employees, customers, and investors. The book serves as a "how-to" guide for leading growth that demonstrates how to execute internal growth strategies to develop the needed flexible systems, performance measures, management techniques, and rewards and risk management strategies.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781440838187
eBook ISBN
9798216122036
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. 1. The Challenges of Rapid Growth
  7. 2. Growth Creates Risk
  8. 3. Is Your Leadership Style Creating Growth Risks?
  9. 4. Strategies for Leading Rapid Growth
  10. 5. Organize Around Outcomes to Measure Performance Drivers
  11. 6. Prioritize Processes for Solutions
  12. 7. Mapping Operations for Growth Success
  13. 8. Five Operating Strategies for Fixing Processes
  14. 9. Time-Cutting Strategies for Agility and Improvement
  15. 10. Attracting the People You Need for Success
  16. 11. Motivating Your People
  17. 12. Choosing Growth Partners—Not Just Vendors
  18. 13. Understanding Operating Risks
  19. 14. Reducing the Risks of Growth Success
  20. 15. Leading Growth Means Executing New Strategies for Keeping Your Promises
  21. Notes
  22. Index
  23. About the Author