Smooth Scaling - 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization

Why do some businesses "fail to scale"? Smooth Scaling offers a clear diagnosis, along with twenty practical Rituals to boost your organization's performance and achieve frictionless growth.

​Where other books on scaling focus on strategy, fundraising, or product-market fit, Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Expert Rob Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down.

These growth pains are both predictable and preventable, yet they almost always take leaders by surprise. But it doesn't have to be this way. Until now, there's been no resource to guide executives through this challenge. As a result, they end up playing "Whack-a-Mole," reacting to a never-ending stream of organizational, team, and people problems one at a time--only for new ones to crop up. Smooth Scaling addresses this gap, presenting a proven approach based on real-life experience and application.

Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created twenty foundational Rituals that integrate seamlessly into the daily habits of your company. These Rituals make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster--and more sustainably--than ever before.

In Smooth Scaling, you will learn how to:

Build trust proactively across your organization
Turn your managers into a powerful driver of productivity and scalability
Build high-performance teams with the people you've got
Break down barriers between departments to prevent silos
Maintain a cohesive high-trust culture as you grow
Smooth Scaling is your indispensable guide to building a scalable, high-performing organization. It gives you the insights, frameworks, and tools you need to create a company that's truly built to last.

List of contents

Introduction
PART I: THINKING TOGETHER
Chapter 1: Struggling to Scale
Chapter 2: Scaling Up to High Performance
Chapter 3: Discovering Dialogue: A New Operating System
Chapter 4: Installing Your New Operating System
PART II: WORKING TOGETHER
Chapter 5: The Ever-Growing CEO
Chapter 6: Top Team
Chapter 7: Great Enterprise Leadership
Chapter 8: Great Managers
Chapter 9: Teams in Action
Chapter 10: Cross-Functional Teams
Chapter 11: All Staff
Chapter 12: Overcoming Obstacles
Conclusion

About the author

Rob Bier is a seasoned expert in building high-performance organizations, with over twenty years’ experience in the field. He has helped over 40 scale-ups, start-ups, and growth companies to scale successfully, including eight that became unicorns or decacorns while he worked with them.

He is the driving force behind Trellis Partners, a firm that supports entrepreneurs and business leaders with leadership, teaming, strategy, and execution. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of MoneySmart in Singapore.

Previously he was the founder and CEO of Sparck, a fintech acquired by Citigroup, co-founder and CEO of venture capital firm antfactory, and a senior partner in the Organizational Performance practice of Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). He also served on the Management Advisory Board of TowerBrook Capital Partners.

Rob earned an engineering degree from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard. He lives in Singapore with his two dogs, Hoffmann and Rosie Bagel, and enjoys classic cars, cooking, hiking, travel, and hanging out with his kids.

Summary

Why do some businesses “fail to scale”? Smooth Scaling offers a clear diagnosis, along with twenty practical Rituals to boost your organization’s performance and achieve frictionless growth. 
Where other books on scaling focus on strategy, fundraising, or product-market fit, Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Expert Rob Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down. 
These growth pains are both predictable and preventable, yet they almost always take leaders by surprise. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Until now, there’s been no resource to guide executives through this challenge. As a result, they end up playing “Whack-a-Mole,” reacting to a never-ending stream of organizational, team, and people problems one at a time—only for new ones to crop up. Smooth Scaling addresses this gap, presenting a proven approach based on real-life experience and application. 
Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created twenty foundational Rituals that integrate seamlessly into the daily habits of your company. These Rituals make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster—and more sustainably—than ever before. 
In Smooth Scaling, you will learn how to:

• Build trust proactively across your organization 
• Turn your managers into a powerful driver of productivity and scalability 
• Build high-performance teams with the people you’ve got 
• Break down barriers between departments to prevent silos 
• Maintain a cohesive high-trust culture as you grow 

Smooth Scaling is your indispensable guide to building a scalable, high-performing organization. It gives you the insights, frameworks, and tools you need to create a company that’s truly built to last.

Foreword

• Media Campaign: Targeting trade publications and select business outlets. 
• Website: Will work with the author to build a dedicated landing page for the book at trellis.asia, including a pre-order incentive/bonus offer. 
• Social Media: Three-month pre-order campaign targeting the author’s 8.8k+ LinkedIn followers, including excerpts and synopses from the book. 
• Email Marketing: Dedicated e-blasts to the author's 6k subscribers.
• Network Outreach:
  o Companies/Brands: The author will reach out to organizations he’s worked with in the past to propose marketing partnerships and special deals.
  o Influencers: Having firmly established himself as a well-regarded organizational consultant and leadership coach, the author will reach out to all influencers in his network for endorsements and promotional support.
  o Speaking: Rob is pursuing speaking opportunities, and we will work with him to leverage those engagements for book promotion and bulk sales whenever possible. 
• Promotions:
  o Digital ARC on Edelweiss
  o Goodreads Giveaway
  o Online Ad Campaign

Product details

• Authors: Rob Bier
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.02.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781637560396
• ISBN: 978-1-63756-039-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development