Growing Pains

Growing Pains
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Flamholtz Eric G.. Growing Pains

Preface

Purpose and Focus

Intended Audience

Overview of the Contents

Key Differences

Conceptual Thinking

Acknowledgments

Part I. A Framework for Developing Successful Organizations

Chapter 1. Transitions Required to Build Sustainably Successful Organizations®

Organizational Success, Decline, and Failure

Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®

The Personal Transitions Facing Founders and CEOs

The Need for Organizational Transition

Transitions Required for Continuing Success: An Overview Case Example

Summary

Chapter 2. Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®

The Nature of Organizational Development

The Pyramid of Organizational Development

The Pyramid and Financial Performance

The Pyramid as a Lens to Build and Evaluate Organizations

Improving Strategic Organizational Development at Guangzhou Construction, China

Successfully Building the Pyramid: The Example of Starbucks

Summary

Chapter 3. Identifying and Surviving the First Four Stages of Organizational Growth

Stages of Organizational Growth

Differences between Entrepreneurial and Professional Management

Discrepancies between Growth and Organizational Development

Managing the Transition between Growth Stages

Case Example of Growth from Stages I to IV: 99 Cents Only Stores

Summary

Chapter 4. Managing the Advanced Stages of Growth

Nature of Problems beyond Stage IV

Growth beyond Stage IV

The Challenge of Revitalization

Summary

Chapter 5. Recognizing Growing Pains and Assessing the Need for Change

The Nature of Growing Pains

The Ten Most Common Organizational Growing Pains

Measuring Organizational Growing Pains

Organizational Growing Pains, Growth Rates, and Infrastructure

Growing Pains and Financial Performance

Minimizing Organizational Growing Pains

Growing Pains at Guanzhou Construction

Summary

Part II. Mastering the Tools for Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®

Chapter 6. Strategic Planning

Strategy Defined

The Nature of Strategic Planning and “Strategic Organizational Development Planning”

Strategic Issues

Management Systems' Strategic Planning Method

International Truck Dealerships: Development and Implementation of Strategic Organizational Development Plans

Ongoing Functions of Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning at Different Stages of Growth

Consultants and Strategic Planning Departments

The Value of Strategic Planning

Summary

Chapter 7. Organizational Structure

Nature of Organizational Structure

Three Related Dimensions of Organizational Structure

Alternative Forms of Macro Organizational Structure

Different Philosophies of Organizational Structure Design

Criteria for Evaluation and Design of Organizational Structure

Case Studies of Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure at Different Stages of Growth

Summary

Chapter 8. Organizational Control and Performance Management Systems

The Nature and Purpose of Organizational Control and Performance Management Systems

Performance Management Systems and Other Forms of Organizational Control

The Performance Management Scoreboard

Evaluation of Performance Management Systems' Effectiveness

Performance Management Systems in Action: Superior Security Systems Case Study

Use of Performance Management Systems at an Individual Level: The Performance Appraisal Process at Southern California Presbyterian Homes

Control and Performance Management Systems at Different Stages of Organizational Growth

Summary

Chapter 9. Management and Leadership Development

The Management and Leadership Role

A Three-Dimensional Framework for Understanding Management and Leadership Effectiveness

The Nature of Management and Leadership Development

Functions of Management and Leadership Development

Management and Leadership Development at Different Organizational Levels

Case Studies of Management and Leadership Development

Management and Leadership Development at Different Stages of Growth

Investment in Leadership Development

Summary

Chapter 10. Corporate Culture Management

The Nature of Corporate Culture

Key Dimensions of Corporate Culture

The Impact of Corporate Culture on Organizational Success and Financial Performance

Strong and Weak Cultures

Functional and Dysfunctional Cultures

Real versus Nominal Corporate Culture

Manifestations of Corporate Culture

How Corporate Culture Changes

How to Manage Corporate Culture

The Importance of Cultural Norms

Corporate Culture at Different Stages of Organizational Development

Summary

Part III. Special Aspects of Organizational Transitions in Growing and Changing Enterprises

Chapter 11. Building Sustainably Successful Nonprofits

Applying the Pyramid of Organizational Development to Nonprofits

Applying the Stages of Organizational Growth and Growing Pains to Nonprofits

Strategic Planning in Nonprofits

Organizational Structure and Structure Management in Nonprofits

Management and Leadership Development in Nonprofits

Performance Management in Nonprofits

Culture Management in Nonprofits

Summary

Chapter 12. The Challenge of Leadership Throughout the Organizational Life Cycle

The Nature of Leadership

Styles of Leadership

Factors Influencing the Choice of Leadership Style

Two Sets of Leadership Tasks

The Leadership Molecule

Emergence and Development of a Leadership Molecule in Organizations

Design of a Leadership Molecule

Empirical Support for the Leadership Molecule Model

The Leadership Molecule at Different Stages of Growth

Implications of the Leadership Molecule for Building Successful Organizations

Summary

Chapter 13. Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®

Organizational Development at American Century Investments

Organizational Development at Infogix

Organizational Development at Bell-Carter Foods

SmileSaver

Organizational Development at Ballistic Cell

Organizational Development at GroundSwell

Conclusion

About the Authors

Eric G. Flamholtz, PhD

Yvonne Randle, PhD

Index

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Growing Pains deals with the problems of building sustainably successful organizations® over the long term. The first edition of this book – published in 1986 and titled, How to Make the Transition from Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm– was written after Eric Flamholtz became aware of the paucity of theory, research, and tools for the management of entrepreneurial organizations.

Prior to the first edition of this book, most if not virtually all of business education ignored entrepreneurship and focused instead on “business administration.” This meant focusing on large established companies such as Bank of America, Boeing, Exxon, IBM, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, and similar institutional “blue chip” companies that had already been in existence for many decades. There was very little literature or cases about starting entrepreneurial firms, or about what we like to think of as “organizational scale-up,” the process of transitioning from a successful start-up to a much larger size and different stage of growth.

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Throughout the book, several new cases, examples, or “mini-cases” of companies dealing successfully or unsuccessfully with growth management issues have been added. New mini-cases and international examples of entrepreneurship have been added because of the widespread flourishing of entrepreneurship around the globe, including examples from Europe, Australia, and Asia. A number of companies (including Starbucks) are used throughout the book to provide a consistent frame of reference for the perspective being developed. To a considerable extent, we have drawn on examples of companies where we have in-depth knowledge. In some cases, to protect the privacy of individuals and organizations, we have disguised the company's and individuals' names.

Our experience over the past 40 years in working with and coaching leaders of many companies throughout the world has shown that there is one key thing (not typically mentioned when discussing the requirement of leadership success) in addition to all of the standard things that leaders are supposed to be able to do. Specifically, this is to be able to think conceptually about their business. The ability of a leader or leadership group to step back from day-to-day operations and the concrete things that business involves is a critical ability that contributes to sustainable success of organizations.

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