This is the 10th and final article in a series on How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Summary: The 3 Deadly Distractions How do you, as the CEO of a 20-100 employee company, crack the code on the potentially disastrous distractions identified in articles #2-5 in this series? How can you counteract? First, […]
Read MoreHow to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #9 in the series If you have built a company to the emerging business size, you are in rare air. You have succeeded where only a handful out of every hundred CEOs ever have. You have navigated very different and difficult phases: start-up, acceleration, and […]
Read MoreOne of the most difficult tasks for any small business or entrepreneur is determining how to price their products and services. Often, startup ventures are unproven and feel in order to get a foothold into a new customer relationship, or out of desperation, that they have to “under-price” their products/services to win the customer. Ash […]
MoreHow to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #8 in the series “And so every one of his four or five companies collapsed ignominiously once it got to middle size, and was saved only by booting Edison himself out and replacing him with professional management.” (Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, p. 188) Bill Gates, Michael Dell, […]
Read MoreHow to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #7 in the series “Incredible things in the business world are never made by a single person, but by a team.” (Steve Jobs, Apple co –founder) Small company CEOs must transition away from the role of a one-person spark plug for leadership and action—and for […]
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