But when you slip across that 100 person mark, you become a village, and a village is something that does in fact have formal structure.' It's still small enough to know everyone else, and you don't need to have a lot of formal processes to make things work.

'Everything is based on a small group of people, whether its 5 people or 50 people. 'Families and tribes are informal structures,' says Chris. He answered quickly: to go from a tribe to a village. We asked Chris what is the most difficult transition to make. It is easy to see that now, but not so easy when you are an entrepreneur, and you in the middle of it. They are:įramed in this way, it becomes obvious that a family operates much differently than a village and that a tribe operates much differently than a nation. In Blitzscaling, Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman describe five stages a company goes through. This means founders and executive teams and even employees, need to make certain transitions so that the company can continue to grow and succeed into the next stage. And the company should be treated differently.

At each stage the company is completely different. It turns out that time never arrives.' What happens instead is that once you do have it figured out, you almost have to start again from scratch because your company is entering a new stage of its lifecycle and the new stage requires a new set of beliefs, operating principles, and processes, and sometimes even people.Ĭompanies go through stages. It's not all roses. As Chris explains, 'You start off building a company and dream about a day when you've got it all figured out, and it's all going to be smooth from there. Blitzscaling is written for entrepreneurs who want to grow their companies to massive sizes and understand how to navigate the transitions from small company to medium company to large company. Chris Yeh joined Helping Sells Radio to talk about his new book, Blitzscaling: The Lightening-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, which he co-authored with Reid Hoffman.

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