Like most managers, you probably have some ideas about how to grow your organization. You may even suspect that one or two of them could turn into something big. Unfortunately, you have no data to prove that your ideas will be needle engines and the number of children to insist on evidence before any financial support can come your way. If this sounds familiar, then you are in what the author calls the growth deadlock "- disappointment where optimism corporate entrepreneur and the need for speed faced with skepticism organization and the need for control. However, she found that there are people in the organization - she calls catalysts "- which manage to achieve sustainable growth, in spite of everything. Author describes their attributes and explains how their leadership initiates almost chemical reaction that creates significant top line results. "Hide
by Jeanne M. Liedtka Source: Rotman School of Management, 4 pages. Publication Date: April 1, 2009. Prod. #: ROT080-PDF-ENG