Keeping your culture as the business scales
It’s a challenge that all growing businesses face: as we scale and evolve, how can we stay true to our culture and the things that make us what we are? The question is especially relevant to tech start-ups and scale-ups because, by their very nature, these organisations are set to undergo the most dramatic growth. For a more mature organisation, there isn’t a huge difference in growing from 5,000 people to 6,000. But moving from 50 to 500 – a smaller numerical increase – is in fact a massive multiplication of the business size. It’s something I’ve experience...