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