
Growing with your company's complexity.

The process of scaling a company is not unlike the process of scaling a product. Different sizes of company impose different requirements on the company’s architecture. If you address those requirements too early, your company will seem heavy and sluggish. If you address those requirements too late, your company may melt down under the pressure. Be
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
As I think about each person behind the work the company requires, I ask myself: Can they scale to the call? Developing an intuition for whether they can, and for how you might help the person rise to the next level, is as critical to scale as the company frameworks themselves.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
the need for the executive team to grow as leaders in their abilities to delegate and predict; the need for systems and structures to handle the complexity that comes with growth; and the need to navigate the increasingly tricky market dynamics that mark arrival in a larger marketplace.
Verne Harnish • Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
One of two things usually befalls a business at this stage that can cause it to fall off the execution lifecycle curve, experience high entropy, and fail. The first is that the entrepreneur is unable to structure, stabilize, and scale the business and s/he has become a bottleneck to growth. In the past, the entrepreneur has worn multiple hats durin
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