Growing pains : building sustainably successful organizations

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 A Framework for Developing Successful Organizations -- Chapter 1 Transitions Required to Build Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- Organizational Success, Decline, and Failure -- Building Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- The Personal Transitions Facing Founders and CEOs -- The Need for Organizational Transition -- Transitions Required for Continuing Success: An Overview Case Example -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®: The Pyramid of Organizational Development -- The Nature of Organizational Development -- The Pyramid of Organizational Development -- The Pyramid and Financial Performance -- Improving Strategic Organizational Development at Guangzhou Construction, China -- Successfully Building the Pyramid: The Example of Starbucks -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Identifying and Surviving the First Four Stages of Organizational Growth -- Stages of Organizational Growth -- Differences between Entrepreneurial and Professional Management -- Discrepancies between Growth and Organizational Development -- Managing the Transition between Growth Stages -- Case Example of Growth from Stages I to IV: 99 Cents Only Stores -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Managing the Advanced Stages of Growth -- Nature of Problems beyond Stage IV -- Growth beyond Stage IV -- The Challenge of Revitalization -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Recognizing Growing Pains and Assessing the Need for Change -- The Nature of Growing Pains -- The Ten Most Common Organizational Growing Pains -- Measuring Organizational Growing Pains -- Organizational Growing Pains, Growth Rates, and Infrastructure -- Growing Pains and Financial Performance -- Minimizing Organizational Growing Pains -- Growing Pains at Guanzhou Construction -- Summary -- Notes.