Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations

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.

Author: T. Brad Harris, Andrew C. Bartlow
Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780231194440
ISBN10: 0231194447
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Human Resources & Personnel Management
- Business & Economics | Strategic Planning
- Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship

About the Author
Andrew Bartlow is the founder of Series B Consulting, which advises organizations on talent and people management during periods of rapid growth and change. He previously led human resources for tech companies in the real estate and ed-tech sectors and has guided organizations through massive growth, multiple mergers, and a public offering.

T. Brad Harris is an associate professor of management at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University and has a joint appointment with the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a coauthor of 3D Team Leadership: A New Approach for Complex Teams (2017).