Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The Challenges of Growth

Name: The Challenges of Growth
Uploaded: 2023-08-08T16:30:09+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this segment, the speaker identifies infrastructure as the central obstacle to scaling a business. He emphasizes that securing effective, trustworthy…

8 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker identifies infrastructure as the central obstacle to scaling a business. He emphasizes that securing effective, trustworthy managers enables delegation and allows senior leaders to become hands‑off directors. As managers shift from hands‑on billing tasks to people‑management roles, the speaker’s own focus can move to macro‑level activities such as opening new offices. Ideally, once the core infrastructure is solid, the organization can grow autonomously without the founder’s direct involvement. The main difficulty, however, lies in building that foundational infrastructure.

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Are there any obstacles, barriers that you are finding yourself run into that maybe you didn't expect? It's the infrastructure is the challenge. Realistically, if you can get people that are effective managers that you can trust, you can delegate to, and you have them time after time, you can escalate it. And the senior manager on that team, that's how you get them to be able to be a hands-off director. So yes, they're hands-on billing managers now, but the viewpoint and the structure is when you end up getting to this, their role moves more to people management. Me, I then move back more to a macro level, open up other offices or whatever. Theoretically, I don't even need to be involved in that, manages itself and grows itself because you have that infrastructure. But the main challenge, getting that core infrastructure, because it is hard.