The transition from great idea to great company is a difficult and fraught one that many startups fail to make gracefully. The traditional approach to managing fast growth--standardizing processes from the top down--often creates needless and ineffective bureaucracy. But exactly what is the alternative to a top-heavy system that suppresses the entrepreneurial spirit of employees and company leaders? In Structured Empowerment: How to Achieve Growth While Promoting Agility, distinguished Harvard Business School professor Tatiana Sandino delivers an incisive exploration of how to sustain manageable growth in an organization with effective structures and systems. She explains how managers and executives can strike the right balance between agility and structure through an approach she calls structured empowerment. The book explains how to grant employees the power to make choices from sets of curated options on inputs and processes--along with the responsibility to deliver results. You'll learn how to keep your employees engaged as the company grows, the right time to formalize management structures and systems, and how to design those systems so that they encourage flexibility without creating chaos. Structured Empowerment offers new thinking about the principles, guidelines, and approaches that lead to effective systems. You'll discover the why, what, and how of the Structured Empowerment Framework, developed during the author's long experience researching and advising companies across the globe. You'll also find engaging stories that clarify why some high-growth companies fail while others retain flexibility and continue to grow. Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Structured Empowerment is also a must-read for entrepreneurs, founders, and employees at startups and fast-growing companies struggling to maintain the difficult balance between agility and structure.