Businesses are meant to grow with their offerings. These offerings are in terms of product or services to either the customers or to another business. These offerings are segmented as a B2B model or B2C model. In both ways, the vision and idea behind such a model is to scale the growth either at a decent pace or giving an exponential push which we call it has growth hack.

With the title of this article itself, the majority of you have started postulating about how that is possible. Read this until the end to know and realize how human resources are not the backbone of early-stage businesses.  

When you start a business, after overcoming all laws and policy for your local and national government, you generally think of expanding your workforce. It is a common procedure by any business leader. This procedure is either followed in a massive scale or at the budget constraint. But yes, hiring is the initial plan of growth, generally. Let me break this protocol. Let's not go for hiring the best talent and scale the business from a different perspective. 

Let us assume you are the founder of a company and you only have a team of 6 people to scale this business and have a mindset of not having the workforce or human resource as your growing path. Before we discuss the disadvantages, let's think of how this is good.

1. Managing your small team of 6 people can be easy. Everyone will be in front of your eye, performing their daily activity. You can simply monitor their activity either through direct connect because your team is small or you can take help of any project management tool to automate your Hr process.
2. Communication would be quite convenient,
3. Managing workflows and tracking holidays and leave won't be as difficult as managing a large team.

But, will this 6 member team under one monitoring eyes, can scale a business?

Yes, it can. More than creating a workforce or human resources full of talent and passion, it is more important to have visionary and good mindsets people in the team. One focused employee can be equivalent to 100 wage dependent people in a team. If you can get those people as your backbone then forget about scaling your human resource team instead of business.

The initial stage mistakes that new businesses commit is to get more than the required people on board. This lead to the following complication in the working environment. 

1. The employees are not confident about the long term operation of their company so they don't show wholehearted support because they have an employee mindset, they want wages, not the growth.
2. Your employee engagement can see distraction as it gets difficult for a team to collaborate when all faces are new along with the lead.
3. You loose out more funds just for paying salaries.

There can be multiple shortcomings but a smart and intelligent leader can take the responsibility to bind the team under common thought. Such leaders are very rare to find and collaborate. 

So, if you are a growing business, you must not focus much on creating a workforce. Prefer getting quality people in the team and scale with them. The future will automatically see human resources becoming the backbone of your business.