Mentors Magazine: Issue 3

MENTORS MAGAZINE | EDITION 3 | 53

gun and scaling prematurely. As we tell

our entrepreneurs in the Scale Out pro-

gram, you need to ask the tough ques-

tions about how your business is running,

identify the elements that need to be

strengthened, make your management

team truly ambidextrous, and set a clear

strategic direction. Once you have those

things in place, scaling can be fast and rel-

atively easy.

We have seen preparation pay off in much

faster growth. Some of our graduates gen-

erated six times the impact and revenues

that their original enterprise achieved.

Scaling may not something that comes

naturally to entrepreneurs – but that

shouldn’t stop you. You weren’t born

knowing how to walk, talk or run. But you

learned how, and now it’s second nature.

You can become proficient at scaling the

same way — learning from others and try-

ing it for yourself.

Rob Shelton is a practitioner, coach, speaker, and

author on breakthrough innovation, entrepreneurial

excellence, and scaling to drive growth. Currently Rob

is an Executive Fellow at Miller Center for Social

Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley where he coaches

entrepreneurs to scale.

Over the past thirty-five years Rob has served as a

trusted partner and advisor to founders and senior

executives at leading organizations around the world.

Rob co-authored Making Innovation Work. The

bestselling book is in its second publication, 14th

printing, and has been translated into 10 languages.

Rob was designated an Innovation Champion by the

World Economic Forum and has been invited to speak

at Summer Davos, House of Commons, Stanford

University, University of California, USC, MIT Media

Labs, and Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley.

Business Website: http://www.scu-social-entrepreneurship.org

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