The fundamental difference between a small business and a big business is usually systems. Documented, working structures that embody how things are done, procedures that ensure the machine continues to turn regardless, enforced policies that ensure margins and impose checks.

Growing a business is very much about building working systems that can run themselves, so the will of the owner is felt beyond their physical capacity to be there.

Glide Strategic helps organisations create, document, implement and refine working systems. Call on us if you want to accelerate your growth, free up your personal time and reduce the risk of growth.

Many small business owners laugh at the wastefulness of big business when it imposes blanket solutions, ignoring inefficiencies a small business owner would attend to, but the value of the system is greater than the cost of the micro-level inefficiency.

And then there are great companies, where the systems are responsive to individual circumstances, so they get the benefits of both control and attention to variations. It's an achievement that is always marked by the strongest corporate culture, with staff who feel as though they own their organisation. See Morale and culture.