Scale with Purpose

The Service Entrepreneur's Guide to Intentional Growth

If you run a small services-based company, you may want to scale your business. But are you ready for what it will take to grow it?

Scale with Purpose is your guide to maximizing a company’s profitability through efficient use of human capital. Jason M. Blumer and Ian Vacin have each spent more than twenty-five years talking, listening, observing, advising, consulting, and mentoring knowledge-based service firm owners. In Scaling with Purpose, Blumer and Vacin present the lessons that they’ve learned—and that you will need to learn.

In twelve detailed chapters illustrated by real-world case studies and illuminated by data from surveys of thousands of companies, Blumer and Vacin present proven techniques for planning and optimizing across different time horizons, with clear models and tools for analyzing and planning. They help you to see whether team members are overworked or underworked and how to fix it, and how to plan capacity for future work—and how to plan future work for your capacity. They show you the different scaling plateaus you will reach and the structural adjustments and management techniques you will need to manage your company size consciously and effectively.

The number one thing that keeps service-based company owners up at night is their company’s human capacity: how to get the most value from their employees, how to manage team size and structure, and whether their company needs to grow or shrink. In Scale with Purpose, Jason M. Blumer and Ian Vacin give you—the entrepreneurial owner of a service organization with up to fifty employees—a roadmap to reaching the maximum enterprise value of your firm at its optimal size.

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