How to Survive in a Scale-Up Business

Master the Human Skills Needed to Thrive in Young, High-Growth Businesses
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91186-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 161 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Working in a scale-up is exciting, but it can also be exhausting. This book is your emotional survival kit for succeeding in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment.

Scale-ups attract ambitious, driven and hardworking individuals seeking excitement, ownership, freedom and greater rewards. However, these opportunities often come with challenges. Understanding the emotional and behavioural patterns commonly seen in scale-ups – and learning from others’ experiences – can help you move from struggling to thriving.

In this book, author Vidya Murali brings together:

• A personal scale-up suitability checklist to help assess and understand whether scale-ups are the right environment for you based on your skills and preferences.

• Guidance on what to look for when interviewing, and how to set yourself up for success in the first 90 days.

• Insights, frameworks and coaching questions to tackle toxic patterns commonly seen in scale-ups.

• Real-life case studies from scale-up leaders with lessons and strategies.

• Practical strategies for introverts, highly sensitive people, ethnic minorities and people with ADHD and/or dyslexia to thrive in scale-ups.

• Tools for building your emotional skills to progress and thrive in scale-ups – including if you lose your job or face a mental health breakdown.

A must-read for anyone transitioning into scale-ups or already working in one, this book will be of immense interest to graduates seeking their first full-time role, professionals transitioning from corporate environment, leaders – including founders – as well as HR professionals and coaches.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murali, Vidya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction 1. Why I wrote this book 2. Who this is book for 3. How to read this book Part 2: Scale-ups: Understand the space 4. What scale-ups are 5. Why scale-ups are important 6. Are scale-ups the right place for you? 7. What makes scale-ups particularly challenging to work in Part 3: Learn to navigate scale-ups like a pro 8. How to find and land the right job in the right scale-up 9. What to do in your first 90 days 10. How to manage common challenging/toxic patterns that stop you from thriving 11. Special note for founders/co-founders Part 4: Learn from real-life stories 12. Stories of struggles 13. Stories of thriving Part 5: Let’s focus on YOU 14. How to thrive when you are different: Introverts, HSPs, minorities, people with ADHD, dyslexia 15. How to navigate job loss 16. How to navigate a mental health breakdown 17. How to re(build) your emotional capacity Conclusion: How to turn your insights into practice

Über Autor(innen)

Vidya Murali has been working in the UK’s leading tech businesses, including Amazon, and high-growth scale-ups such as Deliveroo. Having grown up in India before moving to the UK in 2006 and completing her MBA at the University of Cambridge, Vidya brings unique perspective as a woman of colour and an introvert navigating high-growth and fast-paced business environments. She experienced significant anxiety in the wake of the pandemic, which prompted her to reflect on what matters most and prioritise her well-being. During this time, she started practising mindfulness meditation and began supporting others through coaching and mentoring.

She now holds a leadership position and supports her colleagues and clients as they navigate the exciting – yet chaotic – environment of fastmoving scale-ups, helping them navigate the challenges and seize opportunities, and thrive.