What challenges come with being president of a fast-growing company?
The biggest challenge is finding enough great people, because growth and the company and its result is directly tied to having enough great people with the right attitude that want to win together. Also staying focused on the process. Sometimes when you grow fast, you can get off on tangents, so make sure you stay tied to your core values, your core objectives and the processes that you defined as a way to get there. As you grow, you add complexity to your business. Complexity can be a killer in a business, but if you continue to challenge yourself to come back to the core process as opposed to, let’s say, departments what is it that we are ultimately trying to achieve as an output, and what are the inputs? then we have a process. Whereas if we just look at objectives, then we’re managing numbers, we’re not managing how we do it. What are the most important qualities you look for in an employee? Always passion and attitude in people. You can train other skill sets. We would like people
