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Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed FirmRevised Edition (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Flamholtz, Eric G.

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9781555422721: Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed FirmRevised Edition (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Synopsis

Explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth, from start-up enterprise to mature corporation. Identifies the accomplishments in each stage that lay a foundation for continued successful development and provides practical guidance for implementing professional management systems.

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Eric Flamholtz provides detailed advice to business owners and managers on how to successfully manage their companies' growth through every phase of development, from start-up enterprise to mature corporation. Flamholtz explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth, from start-up enterprise to mature corporation to identify the accomplishments in each stage that lay a foundation for continued successful development."More than just outlining management tasks, Growing Pains takes an in-depth look at the psychological development of the manager and the nature of leadership itself." --Entrepreneur

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Explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth, from start-up enterprise to mature corporation. Identifies the accomplishments in each stage that lay a foundation for continued successful development and provides practical guidance for implementing professional management systems.

Reviews

The entrepreneurs who need this book are already successful, experiencing spectacular growth. Of limited use to small business owners, Flamholtz's principles are more helpful for major firms trying to analyze potential or actual problems. Flamholtz's style is erudite, almost textbookish in tone, but he makes a genuine contribution to management literature. He offers a unified prescription for management, integrating ideas on topics ranging from product life cycle to leadership styles to organizational structure. He contrasts and explains entrepreneurial and professional management styles, explaining which is needed when, and why the use of the wrong style has led to the demise of some very large firms. Paul Hawken's Growing a Business (S. & S., 1987) is more popular in approach with more nitty-gritty advice for small businesses. Flamholtz is recommended for management collections.
- Sue McKimm, Cuya hoga Cty. P.L., Cleveland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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