The Growth Paradox

Matty Paquay

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Samenvatting:

Entrepreneurship is like sex before 1950: expectations are sky-high but
nobody tells you exactly what you’re supposed to do. And you don’t like
to ask. So you pick it up as you go along. By trial and error. In a rapidly
growing company, it happens so often that entrepreneurs feel that life
is one big uphill struggle.

A cram-packed schedule full of tasks you just can’t get done,
employees who are forever tugging on your sleeve, more and more work
despite the extra staff you have hired, sales and marketing departments
that can’t stand the sight of each other and hardly any time at all to think
about the future and where your company is heading. These are just a
few of the symptoms that confront growing companies. Conversations
with entrepreneurs have revealed that the vast majority believe these
growing pains are inevitable. Inevitable and unique. But in fact the
opposite is true, and that is the reason for this book. Matty Paquay’s
theory of the growth paradox starts with this observation: when a
company is experiencing strong growth, it is inclined to slow itself down.

But there is something you can do about that - and this book
will help you out. Matty explains clearly in ten chapters what the most
common growing pains are and how you can tackle them. And of course
he refutes complacent ideas and banishes myths. This book identifies
the problems, explains their causes and offers solutions. After all, every
company has the potential to be a growing company. And to keep on
growing.

What is more, ten entrepreneurs talk honestly and openly about
their own growth process. With no taboos.