What is the key to leading a fast-growth company?
It’s all about the people. You have to attract driven, committed peo- ple and give them responsibility and authority and lead by exam- ple. I am almost always the first one into the office and almost always the last one to leave, so I’m not asking anyone to do any- thing that I’m not doing myself. With a fast-growing company it’s even more so the people. With a slow-growing company, you can see if there’s a problem, you’ve got time and you can address it. But with a fast-growing company, things are much faster. There’s a lot of opportunity that if we don’t have the right people, we could have grown rapidly. But if we could have grown more rapidly and still provided a quality solution to the customers, quite frankly, that’s a disappointment to me. So in a rapidly growing company, you need good people around you to seize the opportunities and manage them effectively. Q: How can a leader maintain growth? It gets back to the people element again and how you attract and maintain quality peo
