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The High Growth Conundrum: Surviving the Financial Risks of Fast Growth

February 8, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

Fast growth might seem like a dream come true for an entrepreneur. What could be better than watching your vision turn into happy customers and hundreds or thousands of busy employees? The reality, however, is that a period of hypergrowth can be extremely dangerous for a young company—sometimes even fatal. Indeed, many fast-growing companies implode […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management Tagged With: Edward Hess, High Growth, Hypergrowth, Slider

The Hypergrowth Conundrum: Q&A with Noam Wasserman, Start-up Statistician

February 1, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

After surviving his own founding pitfalls and watching the failure of many other founding teams when he worked for a venture capital firm, Noam Wasserman began to see patterns in who succeeded and who failed. He tried to find out more, but discovered that although a lot had been written on the question, almost all […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Management, Q&A Tagged With: High Growth, Hypergrowth, Noam Wasserman, Start-ups, The Founder's Dilemmas

The High-Growth Conundrum: Marketing at Hyperspeed

December 5, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

Marketing is an important function at any time, but it’s perhaps most crucial for a company entering a hypergrowth phase. The product might be selling well, but can be killed by any number of missteps: create demand faster than you can fill orders, and the market may turn away from your brand, never to return. […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, China, Conversations, Management, Marketing, Q&A Tagged With: Geoffrey Moore, High Growth, Hypergrowth, Noam Wasserman

The High-Growth Conundrum: Helping Companies Cross the Chasm

December 3, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

How can small companies grow into large companies? It’s a simple question to pose but not so easy to answer. Some of the most persuasive answers have been offered by Geoffrey Moore. The Silicon Valley consultant made his reputation with two books that offered the tech industry a strategy and perhaps more importantly, a vocabulary […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Management, Strategy Tagged With: Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore, High Growth, Hypergrowth, Made in China

The High Growth Conundrum: Building the Right Culture

November 12, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

In a high-growth environment, building the right culture is tougher than you think. The third article in our series on hypergrowth will show you how to go about building your company’s culture when everything is moving at a dizzying pace. For the other articles in this series, click here   A lot of things must […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, China, Culture, Know China, Management, Talent Tagged With: Employee Engagement, Hypergrowth, Organizational Culture, Shalom Saada Saar, Slider, Verne Harnish

The High-Growth Conundrum: Q&A with the ‘Growth Guy’, Verne Harnish

November 2, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

All over China, leaders of fast-growing companies are asking themselves: how can we grow as fast as we need to without destroying our company? It’s a question Verne Harnish has been answering for years. Harnish is the CEO of Gazelles, a Virginia-headquartered executive education and coaching firm focused on advising fast-growing companies that hosts seminars […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Conversations, Management, Q&A, Strategy, Talent Tagged With: Hiring, Hypergrowth, Organizational Culture, Retention, Slider, Talent Management, Verne Harnish

The High Growth Conundrum: Winning the War for Talent

October 22, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

Editor’s Note: Even as the global economy slows down, some Chinese companies are grappling with a new reality: hypergrowth. Dizzying growth rates might sound like good news in today’s world, but they create their own set of challenges. In a new series titled The High Growth Conundrum, CKGSB Knowledge will walk you through the different challenges associated with hypergrowth […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Management, Strategy, Talent Tagged With: Hiring, Hypergrowth, Retention, Slider, Talent, Talent Management

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