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Organic business growth is governed by its own natural
laws-underlying truths that set the stage for growth and
innovation, much in the way that Einstein's law of relativity
accounts for the movement of objects in the space-time continuum.
The most fundamental law is that uncertainty is the only certainty.
Dominating forces are ambiguity and change; the processes at work
involve exploration, invention, and experimentation. Unfortunately,
these truths run counter to the principles of stability,
predictability, and linearity that have long informed the design of
our firms. The Physics of Business Growth helps readers understand
how to create growth in today's business environment, providing
them a roadmap and a set of practical tools to navigate its
challenges. The book lays out a three step formula that will prove
invaluable to professionals who have the opportunity to influence
growth now, as well as to tomorrow's growth leaders, guiding them
in (1) creating the right employee and organizational mindsets to
enable growth (2) building an internal corporate growth system, and
(3) putting in place processes that result in identifying
opportunities, launching growth experiments, and managing a growth
portfolio.
"Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases" is a
textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to
medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management
challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide
to grow and scale their businesses.
The book is divided into two parts--text and cases--to provide
professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses.
The thirty-five cases can be used in conjunction with the text, or
independently. Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple
teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business
decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around
specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance,
marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational
design, business model, and growth. Discussion questions are
provided for each case.
The text portion of the book discusses key issues derived from the
author's research and consulting, and is meant to complement the
case method of teaching, raising issues for conversation. In
addition to the real-world knowledge that students will derive from
the cases, readers will take away research-based templates and
models that they can use in developing or consulting with small
businesses.
Simply put, most entrepreneurial start-ups fail. Those fortunate
enough to succeed then face a second, major challenge: how to grow.
This book focuses on the key questions an entrepreneur must answer
in order to grow a business. Based on extensive research of more
than fifty successful growth companies, "Grow to Greatness"
discusses the top ten growth challenges and how to overcome them.
Author Edward D. Hess dispels the myth that businesses must grow or
die. Growth can create value. But, too much growth too fast
outstrips effective processes, controls, or management capacity.
Viewing growth as "recurring change," "Grow to Greatness" lays out
a framework for how to approach business development--and how to
manage its risks and pace.
The book then takes readers through chapters that explore whether
the time is right to grow, how to do it, and how to manage the
vital reality that growth requires the right leadership, culture,
and people. Uniquely, this book aims to prepare readers for the
day-to-day reality of growth, offering up the lived experiences of
eleven entrepreneurs. Six workshops to assess where readers stand
now and a suite of templates that will prove to be useful over time
help bring the book's teachings to life. After reading this book,
entrepreneurs will have a real understanding of their readiness to
grow and place in the growth cycle, as well as a concrete action
plan for where to take their businesses next.
Many books address how to start a business, but this is a unique,
go-to resource for readers who want to learn how to thrive beyond
the start-up phase.
Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner?s Handbook explains in an
accessible fashion one of the most technical and pitfall-strewn
areas of family law practice. It looks at the law and procedure
relating to the redistribution of pension rights on divorce,
covering the different types of pensions, the powers and procedures
of the court, the actuarial issues involved, and how to deal with
the many different situations that can arise.
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