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temptation of all professionals to underestimate the progress of a practice area down the life cycle.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Dror Poleg • Betting the Firm
It is part of the Silicon Valley circle of life that this happens—that tiny, high-energy startups eventually grow to be large and unwieldy, and the most entrepreneurial employees go on to spread their know-how, money,
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
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Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Assess current and future external conditions and strategic choices and determine which cultural styles will need to be strengthened or diminished in response.
Michael E. Porter • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
Efficiency practices, with their relatively high fixed cost structure and many juniors, would need to take a more studied, planned approach to growth in order to capture the volume necessary to offset lower margins. The needs for both management and administration would increase, in order to devise optimum ways of dealing with familiar engagement t
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Consider reading “Elements of an Enduring Company” and “Writing a Business Plan” on the Sequoia Capital website.[vii]