ScaleUp Madison!: Recent Episodes
Phil Greenwood
Topics on entrepreneurship including growth strategies, finance, and management of early stage and later stage small businesses.
Good Experiences with Serial Entrepreneurs being hired for Startups - however, be careful.
A brief review of the survey published in Inc Magazine summarizing the Google for Startup study of traits of successful startups.
Brief introduction to the Efficiency and Flexibility strategies that firms choose for there operations.
Many firms have problems that can be directly related back to how they design their operations. In this podcast and several to follow, we'll discuss ways that firms can organize operations contingency on their desires and fit with the outside environment.
Taking a little break from the discussion on Decision Making in entrepreneurial firms, this episode discusses the 'trusted employee' found in many Product/Service type organizations. Using a recent Financial Times article as a backdrop, we focus on the how the trusted financial officer of the Trump Organization is under scrutiny by regulators and prosecutors. We then discuss general background of the trusted employees in small firms and how you might take steps to reduce the risk of too much power in one individual.
Building on our previous discussion, the Vroom Yetton Model for Decision making doesn't provide the solution but helps in the process of decision making, especially in weighing how much to involve the group vs. going alone.
The Vroom-Yetton Model of Decision Making is one of the most effective means to determine 'how' you should decide with emphasis on making a decision on your own vs. consensus. The model, established in the 1970s and 1980s, still has relevance in providing insight on adapting your decision to the situation at hand. This initial segment will focus on the five general decision making types in the model.
Managing a startup requires lots of quick but important decisions. These series of podcasts will discuss processes in determining group vs. individual decisions.
As part of Entrepreneurial Leadership, the style and behavior of the founder/CEO and other managers is critical to firm success. This podcast provides info on two leadership behaviors and what may be the optimal style.
The third in a series of podcasts on different classifications of small businesses. The discussed, the Administrative Type firm, highlights characteristics of a structure that small businesses can evolve towards leading to better capability to manage their growth.
Part 2 of our discussion on Organizational Types. This type, the Promoter or Market/Innovation firm, discusses the leadership structure of such a firm along with a few strengths and weaknesses.
Using the late Professor Alan C. Filley's research on small business/entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Business as the foundation of the podcast, we delve into 'types' organizations, or characteristics that small businesses exhibit in their leadership and organization structures. This episode discusses the 'Lifestyle' or 'Craft-type firm'.
The initial episode of Scale Up Madison provides a brief introduction to the podcaster, Dr. Phil Greenwood, and introduces a short story or parable that highlights the importance of providing organization in an entrepreneurial firm. In following podcasts, Scale Up Madison will focus on adaptive strategies that entrepreneurs follow in organizing their firm, sometimes through planning, sometimes just letting it happen.