Growing Pains, 5th Edition

Chapter 2Building Sustainably Successful Organizations^®The Pyramid of Organizational Development

As a new venture begins to grow, the CEO and other members of senior management must simultaneously cope with endless day-to-day problems and keep an eye on the future. Making this even more difficult is that many managers of growing entrepreneurships are going through the process of building an organization for the first time. This is about as easy as navigating uncharted waters in a leaky rowboat with an inexperienced crew while surrounded by a school of sharks. The sea is unfamiliar, the boat is clumsy, the skills needed are not readily apparent or not fully developed, and there is a constant reminder of the high costs of an error in judgment. ...