Growing from 50 to 500 to 5,000 to tens of thousands of employees is hard. Operating systems and processes that work in a 500 person company don’t work in a 5,000 company. The same is true of every growth spurt. Systems break down and stuff gets messed up. As you scale a well designed and implemented human resources organization can help tremendously. A messed up human resources organization will hurt.
BUILDING STRONG ORGANIZATIONS 