Guide to Managing Growth

What do we mean by growth? What kind of growth is desirable? How does a business change as it grows?Is there an optimum rate of growth? Can a business grow too quickly? To what extent can and should managers control the rate of growth in a business? What are the real costs of growth—the personal as well as financial costs? What are the enablers of growth? What are the barriers to growth? Do growth and success necessarily go hand in hand?

This book addresses all those questions and many more in its introduction and following eight chapters:

• Stages of growth

• Growth enablers and drivers

• Growth barriers

• Measuring and describing growth

• Financing growth

• People and growth

• Different types of growth

• The changing nature of growth

There is also an extensive glossary explaining terms and concepts.