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Growing Pains Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm

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ISBN-10: 078798616X

ISBN-13: 9780787986162

Edition: 4th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Eric G. Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle, Angelo R. Mozilo

List price: $69.00
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Since it was first published in 1986, "Growing Pains" has become a classic resource for understanding how start-ups can make the transition to become large, professionally-managed organizations that maintain the special spark that launched them. In the fourth edition of "Growing Pains," authors Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle have thoroughly revised and updated the book to include new ideas and concepts including information about strategic planning, Sarbanes-Oxley, family businesses, and overcoming growing pains, as well as new examples and cases of companies.
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.244

Eric Flamholtz is Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior in the Anderson Graduate School of Management and a faculty research fellow in the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also President of Management Systems Consulting Corporation, which he co-founded in 1978.

Yvonne Randle is Vice President of Management Systems Consulting Corporation. She has extensive consulting experience with companies ranging in size from small entrepreneurships to multi-billion dollar enterprises and is a lecturer on executive education programs in the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

A framework for developing successful organizations
How to build successful companies
Identifying and surviving the first four stages of organizational growth
Recognizing growing pains and assessing the need for change
Management strategies for each stage of organizational growth
The new venture and expansion stages
The professionalizing stage
The consolidation stage
Mastering the tools of professional management
Strategic planning
Organizational structure
Management and leadership development
Organizational control and performance management systems
Effective leadership
Corporate culture management
Advanced aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company
Advanced strategic planning
Managing the advanced stages of growth
Making the transition to a public company
The personal aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company
The special case of managing family business transitions
The transition CEOs must make to survive beyond the entrepreneurial stage