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As startups grow, they shelve their breakthrough innovations and move toward incremental releases such as feature updates. This problem is generally attributed to lags in market demand for new products. It takes time for the relatively small number of early adopters to expand into a broad base of customers.
But market demand is not always the main problem. Startups face internal challenges that hold them back even more. Once a company expands beyond a few hundred people, the informal, entrepreneurial management style of the early days no longer works. Fledgling companies need to grow large but keep the fluidity and productivity of a startup, and it’s not obvious how to do so; first-time founders typically have little experience running bigger companies. Add to that the vagaries of competition and the challenges associated with recruiting and retaining good people, and it is no surprise that so few companies grow past the start-up phase.
You could call this the “chrysalis effect.” Several years after it’s founded, an organization experiences something like the metamorphosis of a larva into a full-grown butterfly. Even for the insect world, this is a brutal transition; the caterpillar molts its skin four or five times and then, as a pupa, literally digests itself. Its old body becomes broth. Formerly dormant cells called imaginal discs, released by new hormones, replicate rapidly, forming eyes, wings, and color patterns. Only one in 400 caterpillar eggs survives to take flight.
The chrysalis metaphor is apt because the process of maturation for startups also involves severe winnowing. In 2015, startups died at a rate of one per week, according to the venture capital database CB Insights. When it comes to "scale-ups," the chances of survival are even lower. The survivors become famous: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Apple are among them. But to get through the transition successfully, leaders have to radically change their organizations and the way they manage, while still growing. During this necessary transition, many companies are sold or taken over. But if the upstart leaders have anticipated the transition — for example, by creating new roles for the founders, attracting people who have experience with similar transitions, developing collaborative networks, and borrowing established practices in their own deliberate way — they can restructure and soar.
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As startups grow, they shelve their breakthrough innovations and move toward incremental releases such as feature updates. This problem is generally attributed to lags in market demand for new products. It takes time for the relatively small number of early adopters to expand into a broad base of customers.
But market demand is not always the main problem. Startups face internal challenges that hold them back even more. Once a company expands beyond a few hundred people, the informal, entrepreneurial management style of the early days no longer works. Fledgling companies need to grow large but keep the fluidity and productivity of a startup, and it’s not obvious how to do so; first-time founders typically have little experience running bigger companies. Add to that the vagaries of competition and the challenges associated with recruiting and retaining good people, and it is no surprise that so few companies grow past the start-up phase.
You could call this the “chrysalis effect.” Several years after it’s founded, an organization experiences something like the metamorphosis of a larva into a full-grown butterfly. Even for the insect world, this is a brutal transition; the caterpillar molts its skin four or five times and then, as a pupa, literally digests itself. Its old body becomes broth. Formerly dormant cells called imaginal discs, released by new hormones, replicate rapidly, forming eyes, wings, and color patterns. Only one in 400 caterpillar eggs survives to take flight.
The chrysalis metaphor is apt because the process of maturation for startups also involves severe winnowing. In 2015, startups died at a rate of one per week, according to the venture capital database CB Insights. When it comes to "scale-ups," the chances of survival are even lower. The survivors become famous: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Apple are among them. But to get through the transition successfully, leaders have to radically change their organizations and the way they manage, while still growing. During this necessary transition, many companies are sold or taken over. But if the upstart leaders have anticipated the transition — for example, by creating new roles for the founders, attracting people who have experience with similar transitions, developing collaborative networks, and borrowing established practices in their own deliberate way — they can restructure and soar.
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In this 9-15-2009 presentation to the Utah state convention of the Society of Human Resource Management, Paul Jones of Alden Keene & Associates describes how corporate citizenship efforts can help human resources (HR) build a better workforce.
The best corporate legacies do not simply occur by chance. They are created by the bold and driven by the visionary. Corporate legacies shine the brightest when they transcend a single product, service or industry.
Take Apple. When the corporate giant combined a phone, a music player and the internet to make the iPhone, Steve Jobs and co. not only created a new future for themselves; they also expanded the idea of what a tech company could be and in what industries it could play. They rewrote the boundaries of what is possible. That is a true legacy.
“Without the iPhone revolution, it is hard to imagine a technology company entering the transport industry or designing a device that can steer cars around while receiving and transmitting streams of data,” John Gapper at The Financial Times wrote earlier this year.
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Samsung is another prime example. For years, the company’s legacy has been built on quality and innovation, but that legacy is in jeopardy following last year’s debacle with the Galaxy Note 7. According to the Reputation Quotient Ratings report by The Harris Poll, in 2015 Samsung was the third most-respected company among U.S. consumers. In the 2017 poll, its ranking fell more than 40 points. For better or worse, corporate legacies are not stagnant—they shift over time with every move leaders make. You will always have an impact.
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MAGNET: Mentoring Manufacturers
1. NEO GROW
52 INSIDE BUSINESS | JULY/AUGUST 2015
AFTER EARNING A bachelor’s
degree at Miami University and
a doctorate in chemical biology
from Harvard University, Ethan
Karp signed on with manage-
mentconsultingfirmMcKinsey
& Co. in Cleveland.
“I could have joined McKin-
sey anywhere in theworld, but
I wanted to go to Cleveland . . .
it has been a great place to raise
myfamily,”saysKarp,anativeof
Clarion,Pennsylvania.
Karp mixed his academic
background in chemistry and
hiswork as a management con-
sultant by joining MAGNET:
The Manufacturing Advocacy
and Growth Network in 2013.
The 30-year-old organization is
one of about 60 Manufacturing
Extension Partnerships (MEPs)
in the country, and covers the
18-county region of Northeast
Ohio. Such private-public part-
nershipswere created in 1988 by
the U.S. Commerce Department
to help U.S. manufacturers com-
peteintheglobalmarketplace.
MAGNET is a success story
that’s gaining national attention:
PresidentBarackObamapaidthe
organization avisitwhen hewas
inClevelandearlierthisyear,the
first sitting president tovisit an
MEPaffiliate.
InMay,Karpbecamethenew
face of MAGNETwhen he was
promoted from vice president
of client services to president
andCEO,succeedingtheretiring
DanBerry.
Karp is one of the youngest
nonprofitheadsintheCleveland
area and is offering a newvision
to accomplish MAGNET’s mis-
sion. Karpwants to leverage the
nonprofit’shistoryandexpertise
togrowboththeconsultingbusi-
nessandtheregion’sworkforce.
“Tobeabletobringeverything
NortheastOhiohastohelpsmall
manufacturers grow and thrive
here,we have spentyears devel-
opingdeepconnectionswithour
universities, colleges and major
institutionslikeNASA.Ourstaff
of 35 manufacturing experts
brings the power of Northeast
Ohio to help manufacturers,”
Karpsays.“Wewanttoworkwith
more partners and more manu-
facturers,toreachourlong-term
goals of growing manufacturing
and offering more middle-class
jobsinourregion.”
One of the main long-term
goals —Karp calls it MAGNET’s
holygrail—istogenerateahigh
school feeder program to find
talented employees towork for
thosemanufacturers.
“The biggest issue manufac-
turers face when they’ve fig-
ured out how to grow is finding
people,”Karpsays.
MAGNET already has part-
nerships in placewith learning
institutions such as Cuyahoga
Community College towork on
job training. The organization
is also trying to develop those
kinds of relationshipswith area
highschools.Andthat,Karpsays,
is the most critical piece of the
puzzle.
“How dowe at a high school
level create a European-style
model that works in the U.S. ,
with multiple companies draw-
ing hundreds of students who
are prepared and excited to go
intomanufacturing?”heasks.
Matthew Fieldman, MAG-
NET’s vice president for exter-
nal affairs, says they’re already
working on getting high school
studentsinterestedinandexcited
aboutmanufacturing.
“We do a lot with local high
schools to get students to think
aboutcareersinmanufacturing,”
he says. “We set up plant tours,
send themvideos and help em-
ployers find and hire interns of
all ages, but there is even more
wecando.”
Another ambition for MAG-
NET, Karp says, is to expand its
partnershipsaswellasgeograph-
ic reach throughout Northeast
Ohio.
Most of what MAGNET
does is provide consulting ser-
vices directly to manufacturers,
ranging from helping develop a
marketing plan and implement
it, designing or modifying a new
productwithMAGNET’sproduct
and design engineering team, to
helpingtransformamanufactur-
ing facility by engaging employ-
eesandfindingefficiencies.
MAGNETworks with busi-
nesses as they need help — as
JoePullella,vicepresidentof op-
erations at Vitamix puts it, “Our
experience with MAGNET has
actually been everything that I
hopeditwouldbeandmorequite
honestly. The MAGNET team
has been great —they’ve really
understoodourneeds.”
“What we offer is holistic
consultation,” Fieldman says.
“We analyze the business from
the plant floor to leadership to
enhancetheminallaspects.”
Mentoring
Manufacturers
WITH A STRONG AND GROWING COMMITMENT
TO LOCAL MANUFACTURING, MAGNET’S
BUILT A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HUB
FOR OUR LEGACY INDUSTRY.
BY VINCE GUERRIERI
“THE MOST EXCITING
THING IS WATCHING
A COMPANY WHO
WE HAVE HELPED
GROW THEIR
BUSINESS, HIRE
NEW PEOPLE AND,
BECAUSE OF THEIR
BUSINESS SUCCESS,
IMPROVE THE LOCAL
ECONOMY.”
— Ethan Karp
MAGNET growth
adviser Jeff Shick
with President Barack
Obama
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One company that has al-
ready drawn on those services
was Parkman-based Montville
Plastics.
Fieldman says MAGNET
helped them write job descrip-
tions — a great service to any
small company that typically
doesn’thaveanin-househuman
resources department — but
Tracie Roberts, Montville’svice
president of sales and market-
ing, says MAGNET’s role went
beyondthat.
“It was a complete process,”
she says. “They went over how
we advertise. They went over
howweinterview.”
Roberts says many manufac-
turerslookstrictlyatskillsetsbut
acknowledges that’s only part of
the picture: “There’s so much
more to it,” she says. “It’s about
theculturalfit.It’saboutcompe-
tencies. It’s more than just, ‘Can
yourunanextruder?’ ”
Roberts says the company
also foundvalue in MAGNET’s
informational series on market-
ingandworkforcedevelopment.
Karp says thevalue of MAG-
NET is that it provides business
servicessuchasgrowthplanning,
websitedevelopment,marketing,
salesanddesignatthesamehigh
level that his former employer
McKinsey & Co. did, but at a
scale and price point that’s more
accessibletosmallerandmedium
manufacturers.
“MAGNETdoesn’t just bring
consultants,we bring the power
of theentireregiontohelpsmall
manufacturers grow. We’re able
to give clients holistic, personal-
ized growth plans that used to
onlybeavailabletohugecompa-
nieswithgiganticbudgets,”Karp
says.
One of the nonprofit’s flag-
ship clients is Cleveland Whis-
key, a small distillery housed in
MAGNET’s facility on East 25th
Street. Tom Lix, the distillery’s
founder and chairman, isn’t a
distillerbytrade.Instead,hedoes
what he calls “disruptive tech-
nology,” shrinking the distilling
process for liquor —which can
take a decade or more — down
tomonthsorevenweeks.
Cleveland Whiskeywas one
of the portfolio companies at
MAGNETthatPresidentObama
visitedwhen he came to Cleve-
land in March, in addition to
OsteoSymbionics, Vadxx and
EcoChem, all small compa-
nies working on cutting-edge
technology.
OsteoSymbionics uses an
MRI or CT scan to 3-D-print a
synthetic piece of skull that can
be implanted during surgery.
Vadxx melts down plastic and
turnsitintooil—“It’smuchmore
profitablethanactuallyrecycling
theplastic,”saysFieldman—and
EcoChemmakesamachinethat,
when installed in a truck, will
clean gasoline to create fuel that
willburncleanerandofferbetter
mileage.
Another company served by
MAGNET is Biolectrics, maker
of OraFlow,which looks like the
type of mouth guard an athlete
would wear. But it’s actually a
cleaning tool that uses a small
electriccharge—whichCEOPaul
Ruflinsaysisundetectablebyhu-
mans —to break down bacteria
andfightmouthdisease.
The company decided to
branch out into the animal mar-
ket since 80 percent of dogs 3
yearsorolderhavesometypeof
periodontal disease. They came
up with a new design called
Zumby,amotion-activatedchew
toythatemitsthesameelectrical
charge. Theywere also aided by
MAGNET and expect to go to
marketinearly2016.
“They helped with project
management, design, testing,
materials and manufacturing,”
Ruflin says. “They basically
helpedeverystepalongtheway.”
“I think the most exciting
thing is watching a company
who we have helped in any
way grow their business, hire
new people and, because of
their business success, improve
the local economy,” Karp says.
“Every single day I can see the
importanceof whatwe’redoing,
and I’m surrounded by the tre-
mendoustalentandpassionof a
group of manufacturing experts
whowant to see Northeast Ohio
grow and thrive. That brings a
lot of energy to me personally
and gives me much hope about
where Northeast Ohiowill be 10
yearsfromnow.”
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MAGNET’s Ethan Karp
guides President
Obama on a tour of
Cleveland Whiskey.
WHITE HOUSE POOL PHOTOGRAPHY
President Obama with three MAGNET
interns, all CSU engineering students