Businesses either grow or stagnate. Growth adds value to the company. It creates a dynamic environment that attracts the best workers — and even more customers. And if you are growing fast, the greatest challenge is how to keep control of and manage your fast growing business. This course provides the answers.
DATES:
November 17-18, 2008
COST:
$1,800
Includes tuition, text, instructional materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
In this intensely focused program, you’ll learn proven strategies and best practices for managing significant, profitable growth. Specifically, the course covers:
- Effective CEO leadership in a fast growing business including the art of delegation, effective hiring, and distinguishing tactical matters from strategic matters
- Identifying and formulating growth processes that facilitate rather than inhibit fast growth
- Staffing your firm at a fast pace
- Employee incentive programs
- Leveraging business partnerships
- Product and service line expansion
- Market share expansion
- Managing mergers and acquisitions
FORMAT:
Two-day program
Classes run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Owen Graduate School of Management, unless otherwise noted.
INSTRUCTORS:
Bruce Lynskey – Clinical Professor of Management, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Professor Lynskey played an instrumental role in growing Wellfleet Communications from a start-up, through an IPO and all the way into the Fortune 100...twice! With 20 years of experience as a business practitioner, Professor Lynskey provides extensive first-hand, real-world knowledge of entrepreneurship along with a global network of business contacts. His hands-on experience ranges from early-stage start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Lynskey earned his MBA from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
