High Growth Handbook

Why I recommend it

I recommend this as a field guide to the operating changes that arrive with rapid growth. It is especially useful about executive hiring, organizational structure, boards, and the founder’s changing role.

What it changed in my thinking

It reinforced that scaling is not simply doing more. Each stage changes the systems, people, and leadership work the company needs, often before the old approach feels broken.

Who it’s useful for

Founders and executives leading a venture-backed company through rapid organizational growth.

A tension or limitation

Its context is unusually fast-growing technology companies. Advice shaped by that environment can be wasteful or destabilizing when growth, capital, and risk look different.