Growing Pains: Building Sustainably Successful Organizations

As a result of reading this book, the reader will have:A road map of the seven key stages of growth andthe challenges that are to be expected at each stage as well as howto determine when a company is at a particular stage.An explanation of the concept of growing painsand why they are an important indicator of organizational health,and an indicator of risk of organizational distress and/orpotential failure.A tool (survey) to measure and understand the severity of theirorganizations growing pains. This includes: An opportunity to complete the Growing Pains surveyonline as a freemium from our partner GroundswellEquity Partnerstogether with a report theidentifies their issuesData on Growing Pains scores in organizations at differentstages of growth and in different industries.A chart of percentile scores showing five levels ofdegree of risk of growing pains, which arecolor coded from green (noproblems) to purple (high risk offailure).A new toolto measure the degree of organizationaldevelopment of a company, which classifies companiesaccording to their overall strength in terms of the Pyramid ofODA new set of data interpreting degree of organizationaldevelopment of a company, which classifies a companyaccording to its overall strength in terms of the Pyramid ofOrganizational Development and a related set of comparative dataand percentile scores.A set of organizational development tools that leadership candeployAdvice for the CEO on the transitions he or she must make aspart of this process.Case studies and examples of successful and unsuccessfulorganizations and the insights and lessons to be learned fromeach.Additional ISBNs: 9781118916407, 1118916409, 9781118916414, 1118916417