Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook

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Leadership for a Growing Business

Although sales may seem to be the greatest growth challenge for a growing venture, organizational issues often eclipse it. You and your startup team must periodically reinvent your organization to cope with changing circumstances. As Amar Bhidé of the Fletcher School at Tufts University puts it, “To attain sustainability, the capabilities of the firm (as opposed to those of the entrepreneur) have to be somehow broadened and deepened. More qualified personnel have to be added, the specialization of functions increased, decision making decentralized, systems to cope with a larger and more complex organization ...