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Growing pains : transitioning from a entrepreneurship to a professionally managed firm / Eric Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle ; foreword by Angelo R. Mozilo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flamholtz, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New business enterprises--Management.
- New business enterprises.
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (493 p.)
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since it was first published in 1986, Growing Pains has become a classic resource for understanding how start-ups can make the transition to become large, professionally-managed organizations that maintain the special spark that launched them. In the fourth edition of Growing Pains, authors Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle have thoroughly revised and updated the book to include new ideas and concepts including information about strategic planning, Sarbanes-Oxley, family businesses, and overcoming growing pains, as well as new examples and cases of companies.
- Contents:
- The authors
- A framework for developing successful organizations
- How to build successful companies: the pyramid of organizational development
- Identifying and surviving the first four stages of organizational growth
- Recognizing growing pains and assessing the need for change
- Management strategies for each stage of organizational growth
- The new venture and expansion stages
- The professionalizing stage: transitioning from entrepreneurship to professional management
- The consolidation stage: managing the corporate culture
- Mastering the tools of professional management
- Strategic planning
- Organizational structure
- Management development
- Organizational control systems
- Effective leadership
- Corporate culture management
- Advanced aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company
- Advanced strategic planning
- Managing to advanced stages of growth: a preview of future challenges
- Making the transition to a public company
- The personal aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company
- The special case of managing family business transitions
- The transition CEOs must make to survive beyond the entrepreneurial stage
- List of tables, figures, and exhibits.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-31474-0
- 0-7879-9621-1
- OCLC:
- 811501074
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