How to run a growing company?

Location

Headquarters out of the capital

Advantages

Possibility to hire more talented people

Easy with modern communication tools

Problems

Must be ready to go to the capital at anytime

Other companies think that is is difficult to collaborate with the ones who are not in the capital

Teleworking

Problems

Insufficient cashflow

Cost savings

Borrow money from the bank

Close the business

Bad decisions in recruitment

Huge amount of work

No long term plans possible

Every year a new target

Budget for only 5-6 months

Management

Difficult job

Stress

Responsibilities

Balance between work and family

Fantastic job

Everything is constantly changing

New clients

New colleagues

Personnality of the CEO

Self confident

Risk taker

Minority of the population

Recommandations for succes

Good corporate communication

Regular meetings

Middle management

Regular letters to employees

Face to face contacts

Hire the righ people

Recruiting process

Technical skills

Personal qualities

Work hardk

New colleagues

Sales people

Technical experts

Sometimes difficult to manage

Talented people

Collective project

Divided ownership between the first employees

Find new clientrs

Where?

First from the network

Referencies

Set targets

Exit strategy

Discuss it at the beginning

Questiions

Job for life?

Make it grow and then sell?

Company strategy

Questions

What are we doing?

Why are we doing that?

How are we doing that?

Selling strategy

To be different from the concurrents

Consulting

With a colleague

With a consultant

New ideas, new perspectives

Sometimes easier to talk with sb outside the company