1st Edition

Scale-up and Build Your Business How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit

By David Molian Copyright 2024
170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How do business founders not only start a business but ensure sustainable growth for the future? This book provides the tools and understanding that enable successful business growth at the scale-up stage. Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author’s two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel... Read more

1. Challenge to Growth Number One: Stick to the Knitting  2. Challenge to Growth Number Two: Money, Money, Money  3. Challenge to Growth Number Three: Managerial Styles  4. Challenge to Growth Number Four: Sustainable Points of Difference  5. Challenge to Growth Number Five: Reinventing the Business to Build Further Value

Biography

David Molian was for many years Director of Cranfield’s Business Growth Programme, the UK’s longest-running scale-up programme for company founders. He has served as faculty at business schools in the UK and France and advised national government policy-makers.

“I have not come across a better, more thorough, and all-rounded guide to growing a business and its entire ins and outs than David Molian's Scale-up and Build Your Business. It should be a must-read for every business school student, for every entrepreneur, and for every business leader.”

Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE DL, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer; Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament

“Superb book, star cast, perceptive narrator – all the best elements.” 

Colin Barrow, Business author

“Knowing the value this man brought me, my family & others through really ‘reach me’ strategy, I have no reservations about recommending this book.” 

Lara Morgan, Founder, Pacific Direct; Co-Owner and Founder at Scentered; Investor in Yogi Bare, GATE8 & KitBrix