As your company progresses from a Village to a City or even a Nation, you’ll continue to need to hire executives, both because the growth in size will require you to add layers above your frontline managers, and because your executives won’t always have what it takes to scale to the next stage. But once your organization has successful executives who can serve as role models and mentors, you will be able to start promoting promising managers with personal experience working with those successful executives from within.
