Executive Focus: Three Keys to Growing Your Company the Old-fashioned Way

With high-performance organic growth companies, there is an implied social contract between the corporation and its employees that the rules of the game will not change mid-stream. Employees work hard for companies where they believe they have a future, and where they know they have an impact.

Edward Hess, B.S., J.D., LL.M., is an adjunct professor of organization and management, and the founder and executive director of both The Center for Entrepreneurship & Corporate Growth and The Values-Based Leadership Institute at The Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He is the author of “The Road to Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow Marketshare from Within” (McGraw-Hill, 2007, $22.95). He can be reached via his Web site, www.EDHLTD.com.