Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

occasionally, even when the opportunity arises, a business opts to scale according to their previous business plan.

Use good judgment when making decisions and apply principle, not rules,

typical interview process for a midlevel job candidate started with a culture-fit screening with Ritter, followed by an interview with the leader and select members of the team that had the job opening.

“When working on a design, we think about the personality of the individual who might wear it, and what that person would want to communicate about themselves,” she

Delegation transforms an entrepreneur into a manager. Successful entrepreneurs have made this transition by learning to “trust but verify”—having daily team meetings to set daily priorities and a short team meeting each day to teach a key point.

that’s the advantage of going to your end users to find out what they want, because if I’d gone to the retailer, I would have had a nickel-and-dime product that was a pile of crap that looked like everything else on the shelf.

“We lived, and still do, by Gerber’s tenet—‘big business is just a small business that thought big.

Financing production growth complicates the scaling decision for most growing, private companies because financing can be as big a concern for an entrepreneur as maintaining quality.

Unless the risks are assessed and planned for, unprepared growth can lead to business and financial demise.