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This book explains why you should grow your business and describes some of the major challenges of growth. It identifies several strategies that enhance the growth of new firms. It explains how entrepreneurs can select high-performing employees and describes various ways of enhancing employees' motivation and commitment, including the use of pay systems that help to retain high-performing employees. It describes various techniques entrepreneurs can use to increase trust in their new ventures and explains why it is important for entrepreneurs to match their leadership style to the situations they face in their new ventures.

Robert A. Baron - Dean R. Wellington Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Prof. Baron has held faculty appointments at Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, University of Texas, University of South Carolina, University of Washington, and Princeton University. In 1982 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. From 1979 to 1981 he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (Washington, D.C.) In 2001 the French Ministry of Research appointed him as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Shane's work has appeared in Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among other journals.