Product Description

From start-up enterprise to mature corporation, this latest edition of the best-selling original explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth. It also identifies what must be accomplished in each stage to ensure continued development and provides practical guidance for implementing management systems. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent business developments, it contains all-new chapters on strategic planning and structure, along with many new company success stories including those of Starbucks, Jamba Juice, PacifiCare, and American Century Investors.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #516922 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-30
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.32" h x 7.27" w x 9.58" l, 1.63 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

From Library Journal
The entrepreneurs who need this book are already successful, experiencing spectacular growth. Of limited use to small business owners, Flamholtz's principles are more helpful for major firms trying to analyze potential or actual problems. Flamholtz's style is erudite, almost textbookish in tone, but he makes a genuine contribution to management literature. He offers a unified prescription for management, integrating ideas on topics ranging from product life cycle to leadership styles to organizational structure. He contrasts and explains entrepreneurial and professional management styles, explaining which is needed when, and why the use of the wrong style has led to the demise of some very large firms. Paul Hawken's Growing a Business (S. & S., 1987) is more popular in approach with more nitty-gritty advice for small businesses. Flamholtz is recommended for management collections.
- Sue McKimm, Cuya hoga Cty. P.L., Cleveland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"...whose clear analysis, audit tools and real life case studies make it an invaluable complement [to The Essential Guide to Managing a Small Business]..." (Financial Times, 18 September 2003)

Kirk J. Perron, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Jamba Juice Company, December 1, 1999
"A must-read for any entrepreneur, board member, or manager of a company that's evolving from an entrepreneurial to a professionally managed organization. Flamholtz and Randle have created an invaluable framework for guiding all stages of a company's evolution that will help to minimize the many obstacles that all growth companies experience."