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A Company Only Has To Do Three Things Well
It’s the third one, the organization part that keeps many companies smaller than they could be. Especially companies under 100 employees. If you're frustrated with the growth of your company, here’s why there’s hope:
- Organizations are made up of functions (not jobs).
- Those functions are very similar across all industries.
- The CEO’s function is to build that organization.
- You're probably too busy doing other functions to focus on doing that CEO function well.
I just said you aren’t doing your job right. Why is that hopeful? Because except for the product you make, many of the functions of the organization are so similar across industries, you can copy from others. Chefs that make great food without a recipe can’t scale their restaurants. If you're struggling to scale your company, it's likely that you're a great chef, but your people need recipes. The bonus is working on the organization also improves your ability to sell and make products people want to buy.
Hello, My name is John Seiffer and for the last 25 years I've been helping entrepreneurs grow their companies through this phase of intense organizational change. I've identified three distinct stages of organizational structure and the things you need to do as a leader that differ in each stage - recipes, if you will. Since I can't work with as many companies as I'd like, I've taken the models and exercises I use when I work directly with organizations and complied them into a series of modules. Each one gives you practical action-items you can do to work on a different system of your business. I'll even show you how to get the time to do it. Let's start with an eBook that shows what stage you're at and what to do to grow to the next.
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