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DR. ANTHONY F. SMITH is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Leadership Research Institute, recognized as one of the leading management consulting firms in the world, specializing in Leadership Development and Assessment. He has been an active consultant for over twenty years in the areas of organizational change and assessment, team building, executive coaching and development, and leadership training and design. He has served clients in a variety of fields, including American Express, The National Football League, The Coca-Cola Company, The National Geographic Society, Seimans AG, The Walt Disney Company, Deutsche Bank, Spencer Stuart, Hewlett Packard, ESPN, KKR, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey and Company. MORE...
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Book Review: ESPN The Company
I challenge you to evolve a company.
Let's say you and a group of friends have a killer business idea. You create a startup. After a lot of elbow grease, you scrounge up enough funds to get the startup off the ground.
Next, you aggressively market, hire, and expand enough to ensure your little company's survival. Once you've gained enough traction to do that, you work like a dog to ramp up your company's growth with new products, services, and markets.
Years later, you're a sizable corporation. Congratulations! Just don't grow complacent or egotistical. You'll threaten your own survival if you do that. Your challenge now is to thrive as an institution.
Handful enough for you? It is. That's why few companies make it from fanatical startup to established institution.*
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