What I learned scaling an SME to the FTSE 100

摘要

To paraphrase Paul Krugman, growth isn’t everything, but in the long run it’s almost everything.Unfortunately, scaling a business comes with challenges serious enough to trip the vast majorityof company founders, not least because running a big business is completely different frombuilding a small one.Rod Aldridge is one who managed to stay on his feet, growing outsourcing pioneer Capita from amicro-business to a FTSE 100 giant over a quarter century, before resigning over a political loanin 2006. Here’s what he learned along the way.