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初创企业

Startups – Responsibilities of the 1%
初创企业——1%人的责任

You belong to the 1% of founders whose startup is a huge success? Congratulations. That’s an enormous achievement.

你属于那1%获得巨大成功的创业者吗?祝贺你。这已是一个巨大的成就。

 

There are probably two types of successful founders: the ones who couldn’t be bothered reading this, and the ones who understand that:

  1. with success comes responsibility (for your employees, investors, clients, etc.), and
  2. growing (too) fast creates a whole new situation with new challenges.

成功的创业者大概有两类:一种人不屑于阅读本文,另一种人能深刻理解:

  1. 伴随成功而来的是责任(对你的员工,投资者,客户等),以及
  2. 成长(太)快会带来全新的挑战。

 

Yes, growth is the ideal state of every business, but as Marshall Goldsmith put it, “what got you here, won’t get you there”. Here are some of the issues created by growing (too) fast, and why interim management can also be a great solution for startups:

是的,成长是每个企业的理想状态,但正如马歇尔•戈德史密斯(Marshall Goldsmith)所说:“成就了你今天的东西,并不会成就你的明天。”以下是一些由于发展过快而产生的问题,以及为什么临时管理对初创企业来说也是一个很好的解决方案:

“What got you here,
won’t get you there”

“成就了你今天的东西,
并不会成就你的明天。”

Inefficiency due to lack of business process management:

缺乏业务流程管理导致效率低下:

In the beginning, you relied on a few allrounders, and your motto might have been something like “just do”, or “do, fail, learn, repeat”.

一开始,你依赖于一些多面手,而你的座右铭可能是“行动吧”,“行动,失败,学习,重复”。

If you’re lucky, the learnings have been documented somewhere in the cloud. Now, this might become the biggest obstacle in the way of achieving the necessary efficiency, which requires sharing tasks amongst specialists.

如果幸运的话,知识已记录在云端某处。 而现在,这可能成为实现所需效率最大的障碍,因为它需要专家互相共享任务。

Hiring the wrong people too quickly while losing talent

过快雇佣错误的人,从而与人才失之交臂

Inefficiency due to lack of business process management:

缺乏业务流程管理导致效率低下:

In the beginning, you relied on a few allrounders, and your motto might have been something like “just do”, or “do, fail, learn, repeat”.

一开始,你依赖于一些多面手,而你的座右铭可能是“行动吧”,“行动,失败,学习,重复”。

If you’re lucky, the learnings have been documented somewhere in the cloud. Now, this might become the biggest obstacle in the way of achieving the necessary efficiency, which requires sharing tasks amongst specialists.

如果幸运的话,知识已记录在云端某处。 而现在,这可能成为实现所需效率最大的障碍,因为它需要专家互相共享任务。

Hiring the wrong people too quickly while losing talent

过快雇佣错误的人,从而与人才失之交臂

Obviously, you need to hire.
显然,你需要招聘

For startups, filling management positions is usually the most difficult, as typically people are more likely to join a startup in the beginning of their career, when gaining experience is more important than salary or job security.

Hence, promoting from within is often not the best option. Similarly, in this critical phase, you cannot afford to invest a lot of time in training new employees. They should already fit into the existing team and meet the role requirements.

Interim managers are free from your past. They always draw their motivation from the current project and challenge. As interim managers are usually not interested in equity, this also helps to avoid conflicts around this topic – another typical pitfall for growing startups.

对于初创公司来说,填补管理职位的空缺通常是最困难的,因为通常人们更有可能在职业生涯刚开始时加入初创公司,因为积累经验比薪水或工作保障来得更重要。

因此,内部提拔往往不是最佳选择。同样地,在这个关键阶段,你也不可能花很多时间培训新员工。他们应该能够马上适应现有的团队,并满足角色的需求。

临时经理人可以从您的过去中脱离出来。他们专注于当前的项目和挑战,从中汲取动力。由于临时经理人通常对股权不感兴趣,也有利于避免这方面的冲突,这也是成长中的初创企业会遇到的典型陷阱。

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