Complimentary Management Style Assessment

For those who have purchased the Leadership Is Fluid book, this assessment will reveal your preferred mix of decision-making approaches and help you get more out of the book.
This is your personal starting point for making decisions and managing others. How you shift management practices from this starting point determines how successful you will be as leader over several growth phases.
The answer is not one single preferred mix of approaches. The answer lies in the wisdom to use the right approaches at the right times.
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The book's 367 pages (on Kindle) cover growth phases, effective management practice and priorities for each phase, and strategies for success at each phase.
Understand important junctures where entrepreneurs commonly take unproductive detours and learn how to blaze your best trail forward.
Follow the story of Vic Sparrow's growth path. Vic successfully navigates detours and blind alleys to move fluidly through different phases and using different structures and priorities.

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Overcome Fundamental Causes of The 13 Classic Growing Pains

Growing Pains of Early Entrepreneurial Growth - to links to descriptions

1. Turf Battles and Titles
2. Reluctance to Demystify the Magic
3. You Had to be Here at the Beginning to be Effective Now
4. Office Manager Crisis
5. Perpetual Innovation

Of Mid-Entrepreneurial Growth - to links to descriptions

6. Crisis and Rescue Cycle
7. Diversification That is Way Too Early
8. Indecisive Teams of Super-Capable People
9. The Sequel Is Not as Good as the Original

Of Late Entrepreneurial Growth - to links to descriptions

10. Defiant Innovation Becomes Defiant Isolation
11. A Flotilla of 100 Rafts
12. Repeated Revolutions with Little Progress
13. A Well-functioning Management Team Is Not a Succession Plan

Your Management Style is Simply Your Starting Point

An entrepreneur faces significant challenges. The types of problems you will encounter as your innovative enterprise becomes successful and grows will change dramatically over time. No single approach to management will be effective over several divergent growth phases.

Yet, many entrepreneurs do not have the financial resources to create a large management team representing the different management priorities and practices. Instead, they must adapt to the changing demands themselves.

Even if an enterprise can afford a large management team to address the wide range of situations, a larger team has drawbacks. Large teams can be less cohesive and slower moving. A small team can be more nimble and navigate the terrain of entrepreneurial growth more quickly. Thus, many management teams prefer to be small and nimble.

A success-driven entrepreneur will need to advocate different practices and priorities at different times on the growth path. Success in accelerating entrepreneurial growth over multiple growth phases is not based on any single set of management practices and priorities - or single management style.

Success is based on how fluid one is in shifting priorities and practices as requirements of success change. Your preferred management style is simply your personal starting point on that journey.

Your journey will be less stressful, quicker, and more successful if you have a roadmap for the path ahead and an objective assessment of your management style biases.

You will find this work useful if You are:

Seeking to accelerate growth and want to avoid a trial-and-error approach to finding the appropriate growth path. I believe it is possible for an entrepreneur to cut in half the amount of time required for the enterprise to reach a given level of longer-term growth and development. You can do this by having a mental road-map of the possible paths forward, avoiding some of the blind alleys, and reducing collateral damage as you move from one growth phase to the next.
Just beginning to feel growing pains in your enterprise. The growing pains you are experiencing could be early warning indicators of a need to change some aspect of how your enterprise operates. You can accelerate growth by responding to them right away.
Mindful of your own strengths and weaknesses and are willing to do what is required to move the enterprise forward. Attributes that are strengths in one growth phase can become weaknesses in another. Recognition of this dynamic and responding appropriately will accelerate growth and development.

Helping Entrepreneurs Take Growth to the Next Level

Complimentary Management Style Assessment

Complimentary Management Style Assessment

Complimentary Management Style Assessment

Purchase e-Book: Leadership Is Fluid

Complimentary Management Style Assessment

Complimentary Management Style Assessment

Overcome Fundamental Causes of The 13 Classic Growing Pains

Your Management Style is Simply Your Starting Point

You will find this work useful if You are:

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