FROM 50 TO 500 - MASTERING THE UNIQUE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES OF GROWING SMALL COMPANIES

Reading From 50 to 500 enables you to become a more capable leader, someone who positively impacts the full range of results defining organizational success. We address the challenges small business leaders face as their companies grow from 50 employees to 100 and beyond. As company size increases, the challenges, opportunities, and obstacles leaders face become varied and more complex. The nature of capabilities and decisions changes, as does the impact on company success. As a result, your leadership must adapt and grow stronger. Our book represents a comprehensive, highly functional toolbox for small to mid-sized business leaders (companies with up to 500 employees). It is loaded with valuable insight, relevant business cases, and motivation to learn, grow, and succeed. Plus, we have a free online assessment that helps readers to better understand your current leadership capabilities. In From 50 to 500, the authors identify key characteristics of small companies with the potential for rapid growth. Using this perspective, they present a highly relevant, easy-to-understand and actionable model, defining the motivators, capabilities and potential derailers unique to small business leaders. Readers are then invited to explore the distinct business challenges two typical leaders face over a business cycle. Opportunities to evaluate each leader's decisions and outcomes provide valuable insights into their effectiveness and impact, and tools are provided to strengthen leadership effectiveness and achieve improved organizational results. An engaging and innovative small business leadership framework guaranteed to strengthen a leader’s effectiveness to drive company growth and results.