The CEOs of our small giants have all faced, and continue to face, the same issue. One way or another, they have had to keep their best people engaged and challenged or run the risk of losing them. In most cases, the answer has been a kind of controlled growth that has preserved the company’s culture while creating new opportunities for employees. Not that other companies don’t control their growth. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t survive. For a conventional business, however, the growth is the goal, and the control is what you need to keep it in hand. With the companies we’re looking at,
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