Businessman Micky Ahuja on People, Systems and Sustainable Growth
There is a tendency to look at established businesses and assume there was always a clear plan behind them. From the outside, growth can appear remarkably straightforward: somebody has an idea, starts a company, finds customers, hires a team and gradually builds something bigger. Anyone who has actually spent time running a business knows the reality is considerably less tidy. Plans change, opportunities disappear, good decisions sometimes produce disappointing results and problems have an inconvenient habit of arriving at exactly the wrong time. For Australian businessman Micky Ahuja , those realities are part of entrepreneurship rather than exceptions to it. Building a company is not simply about having the confidence to start. It is about learning how to keep making decisions when the business becomes more complicated than the idea that created it. One of the biggest changes happens when a founder can no longer be everywhere at once. During the early days of a business, being involv...