Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed FirmRevised Edition (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series). This item is unavailable.Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed FirmRevised Edition (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth, from start–up enterprise to mature corporation. Identifies the accomplishments in each stage that lay a foundation for continued successful development and provides practical guidance for implementing professional management systems.

Eric Flamholtz provides detailed advice to business owners and managers on how to successfully manage their companies′ growth through every phase of development, from start–up enterprise to mature corporation. Flamholtz explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth, from start–up enterprise to mature corporation to identify the accomplishments in each stage that lay a foundation for continued successful development."More than just outlining management tasks, Growing Pains takes an in–depth look at the psychological development of the manager and the nature of leadership itself." ––Entrepreneur