Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

11. Employees are not a means to an end, but, rather, they are the “

Good cultures do not just happen; they take constant work and upkeep.

development and writing of processes should be part of an employee’s job; everyone should create a process that someone else could follow when the employee was absent

Part of accepting the need for delegation is acknowledging that what comes naturally to you may have to be learned by others who will make mistakes.

how can you create an environment where employees are engaged in the daily pursuit of excellence?

Others focused on identifying and remedying bottlenecks. They created flow charts showing each critical step in the process of generating cash—the lifeblood of a business. They thought of the flow chart as a pipeline or funnel and monitored flows to determine where there were bottlenecks or flow delays. Finally, they focused on the bottlenecks and,

2. High employee engagement in the purposes of the business results in daily excellence and high performance. High employee engagement is the silver bullet of business success.

Growth requires the entrepreneur to continuously redefine his or her relationship to the business and to its employees. Because growth changes what the entrepreneur does each day, his or her focus necessarily will change. The continuing change in focus requires that the entrepreneur develop new skills, which are often quite different from those ent

“You know the old adage, nothing happens until a sale happens,” Lindsey said. “So we focused on creating demand.

Scaling volume requires scaling production, sales, and distribution without sacrificing quality and financial controls. Scaling is the key to high growth.