ScaleUp Madison!

As part of Entrepreneurial Leadership, the style and behavior of the founder/CEO and other managers is critical to firm success.  This podcast provides info on two leadership behaviors and what may be the optimal style.

The leadership characteristics exhibited in the different types of enterprises.  

The third in a series of podcasts on different classifications of small businesses.  The discussed, the Administrative Type firm, highlights characteristics of a structure that small businesses can evolve towards leading to better capability to manage their growth.

Part 2 of our discussion on Organizational Types.  This type, the Promoter or Market/Innovation firm, discusses the leadership structure of such a firm along with a few strengths and weaknesses.

Using the late Professor Alan C. Filley's research on small business/entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Business as the foundation of the podcast, we delve into 'types' organizations, or characteristics that small businesses exhibit in their leadership and organization structures.  This episode discusses the 'Lifestyle' or 'Craft-type firm'.

The initial episode of Scale Up Madison provides a brief introduction to the podcaster, Dr. Phil Greenwood, and introduces a short story or parable that highlights the importance of providing organization in an entrepreneurial firm.  In following podcasts, Scale Up Madison will focus on adaptive strategies that entrepreneurs follow in organizing their firm, sometimes through planning, sometimes just letting it happen.