The honeymoon is over! You have your startup capital, you’ve ramped up to four to six employees quickly and now the fun begins.

You aren’t sure when it happened, but without being cognizant of it, you have between 11 – 19 employees. That’s a lot of people who rely on you to bring home the bacon. You are now the proud owner of a Stage 2 company!

Hang on to your sanity, your world just shifted. You’ve grown to a Stage 3 company with 20 – 34 employees.

In Stage 4, with 35 – 57 employees, you need managers who have ‘been there, done that’. This isn’t the time to think about saving money by hiring inexperienced managers.

As a Stage 5 CEO, you’ve already seen your fair share of changes. It’s time to transform your managers into an integrated leadership team. They need to operate as a single unit, focused on the company’s overall goals and strategies, not as a number of independent departments.

There’s a rhythm now. Patterns of behavior have been established, processes are in place and the morning walk through your company has an air of familiarity that feels good and comfortable. Your confidence in your staff is strong.