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Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from anEntrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm, Third Edition
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More About This Title Growing Pains: How to Make the Transition from anEntrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm, Third Edition

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ERIC G. FLAMHOLTZ is professor of management at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of management and president of Management Systems Consulting Corporation. He lives in Los Angeles, California. YVONNE RANDLE is vice president at Management Systems Consulting Corporation. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Tables, Figures and Exhibits Preface Acknowledgements The Authors Introduction: The Transitions Needed to Keep a Growing Firm Successful
Part One: A Framework For Developing Successful Organizations
1. How to Build Successful Companies: The Pyramid Of Organizational Development
2. Identifying And Surviving The First Four Stages Of Organizational Growth
3. Recognizing Growing Pains And Assessing The Need For Change
Part Two: Management Strategies For Each Stage Of Organizational Growth
4. The New Venture And Expansion Stages
5. The Professionalizing Stage: Developing Management Systems
6. The Consolidation Stage: Managing The Corporate Culture
Part Three: Mastering The Tools Of Professional Management
7. Strategic Planning
8. Organizational Structure
9. Management Development
10. Organizational Control Systems
11. Effective Leadership
12. Corporate Culture Management
Part Four: Role Of The Entrepreneur In A Growing And Changing Company
13. Managing The Advanced Stages Of Growth: A Preview Of Future Challenges
14. The Transition Ceos Must Make To Survive Beyond The Entrepreneurial Stage
References: Key Resources For Further Information Endnotes Index
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"...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)"Flamholtz and Randle have done an excellent job of updating their classic roadmap. It is the best approach I have seen to overcoming the hurdles we all face in creating and improving world-class companies. I have used it and it works." —Jeffrey M. Nugent, worldwide president, Neutrogena

"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." —Kirk J. Perron, founder, chairman, and CEO, Jamba Juice Company

"Most entrepreneurs experience initial success by breaking the rules and ignoring the experts. But sooner or later we all run into the kinds of issues and challenges that Flamholtz and Randle have studied and assisted organizations with over the last twenty-five years. This comprehensive guide to business growth shares valuable perspectives on complex business issues. My review copy is already dog-eared!" —Brian Maxwell, founder and CEO, PowerBar Inc.

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