Scaling up Excellence

An answer to the question every business person asks: how does a company achieve successful growth?

We all want our businesses to grow, but transforming a small operation into a larger enterprise can be extremely complicated. And it's a sad fact that all too many businesses find they just can't make the leap. Processes that worked well at the beginning fall apart as volume increases, talented people find themselves overstretched as their teams grow, and management becomes bogged down in complexity.

For five years, Stanford professors Bob Sutton and Hayagreeva Rao have been investigating the challenge of scaling up – the art of taking a company successfully to that next level. In the process they have talked to everyone from Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook to Ed Catmull at Pixar, and have studied the findings of economists, behaviouralists and sociologists. Scaling Up Excellence presents the fruits of their research, showing how you can formulate a step-by-step plan to build an organisation without losing sight of what gave it its initial success. From creating, and living, the correct mindset to dealing efficiently with complexity, their simple, practical advice will be invaluable to every manager.