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We call this the Manual Stage, where the business founder, holding the vision and being competent, manages a small team quite well. He knows the technology for producing the product, as well as what his employees need to achieve in order to get results. As the company engages in small-scale activity, there aren’t executives and management issues do not come up. Regardless, the business is still gradually approaching the First Management Crisis. When the company hits the crisis depends on how fast the company is growing.

Once the idea proves successful and you have to turn it into a real business, then we move to the next stage. The owner begins to understand that to further expand, he needs to shift from directly managing individual employees to managing parts of the company – he needs to create a second level of managers. Whether the business owner promotes his best employees to managers or tries to hire experienced ones, the First Management Crisis deals the inevitable blow. After managers or executives are hired and established, overall efficiency usually drops.