The Scaling Myth by John Grinnell

The economy was cranking and the opportunity for growth had never been better. The executive team was more excited than they had been in years, and they wanted to “strike while the iron was hot.” Scaling infrastructure was the challenge before them. They had loyal technically talented employees who had lifted the company to its current size of 7M per year. The good news was that their equipment was already overbuilt due to a technical propensity of the founder, yet their administrative system needed upgrading. They moved quickly bringing in a more robust administrative software product that could help them scale as well as a couple of IT professionals to run it. Continue reading...