Leading Change in an SME at the Growth Stage: A Case Study
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Hsue, Juin-Yue
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
People usually get the same diseases in life while growing up in different environments. Similarly, enterprises share common growing pains in spite of their own exclusive and distinctive growths. Some fast growing companies enter the early growth stage of the corporate lifecycle, inevitably increasing and expanding their organizations before a set of suitable regulations are in place. Without paying much attention to the necessary organization management, many potential problems or even crises are already planted in the organization before they are realized.
This study explores the common characters of a company at the Growth Stage as well as the winning strategy-to-be at the Growth Period of its industry life cycle to focus on two major issues, “quality” and “employee stability”, from among many other problems. The target of the change from the company revolution (The Change) is to fix the issues by applying the principle of “Explosive Point of Leading Style” which initiates The Change from central key factors – managers who will in turn affect the whole organization just like an explosion exploding from a central point, propagating the power to the peripherals. Therefore, strengthening key manager capabilities, those associated with mental leadership as well as physical execution, and following up with a suitable process for The Change will be the tasks to recover the company’s health.
During the study, some reluctance and surprises were encountered. By following the theory and applying the enhanced manager capabilities, surprises such as strong leaders instead of strong leadership were resolved quickly and properly. Consequently, project management was identified as the initial trouble point to implement The Change. Its quick achievement gave us high confidence for further change. We believe that The Change can continue bringing positive results. The next growth stage is about to begin.
Subjects
企業成長階段
引爆點領導
管理人才能
變革步驟
corporate life cycle
corporate growth stage
manager competency
Type
other
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