Scaling for Success : : People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations / / Andrew C. Bartlow, T. Brad Harris.

• VerfasserIn: Harris, T. Brad,; Bartlow, Andrew C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 58 b&w figures and tables

Managing a high-growth organization requires both strategy and adaptability. Unfortunately, start-up founders and executives seeking to scale up to the next level find all too frequently that growth turns into chaos. Rather than laying the groundwork for the future, organizations get stuck by covering up complex problems with unsustainable band-aids and duct-tape fixes, implementing anecdote-based solutions from the latest tech-industry unicorns or leadership books, and relying on too much on-the-fly learning from inexperienced managers.This book is the definitive guide for leaders of high-growth organizations seeking to understand and execute the people-management principles that are essential to continued success. Combining a wealth of practical experience, well-grounded academic research, and easy-to-apply frameworks, Andrew Bartlow and T. Brad Harris offer a practical toolkit that founders, functional leaders, and managers of people can use to rethink their practices to meet their organizations’ needs. They help readers identify the core people-management programs and practices that are best for an organization at its current stage and size while also supporting a foundation for continued development and the capacity to adapt to inevitable surprises. Practical, actionable, and supplemented with numerous diagnostic tools and illustrative examples, Scaling for Success is a must-have playbook for organizational leaders pursuing smart and sustainable growth.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scaling for Success -- 2 Organizational Structure -- 3 Talent Acquisition -- 4 Total Rewards -- 5 Learning and Development -- 6 Culture, Engagement, and Communications -- 7 Performance Management and Goal Setting -- 8 Clarity, Consistency, and Consequences -- 9 How and When to Construct Your People Team -- 10 Where Next? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index