How Do Companies/Corporations Work?

For an average corporation, only 3% of the people associated with the corporation are A players. 17% are B players.. and you can just all about forget about the rest... the C's and the losers and the hangers ons.

For any organization, the goal is to have an organization full of A players and weed out the rest..

There is no definitive guide because they're all different just like two blogs in the same niche do things differently.

Not all sales (and therefore not all sales persons) are the same. Some go out some don't.

In some companies there are fewer administrative people.

Some companies have no directors. The larger ones sometimes have more because each one specializes and they find that more productive than one trying to do it all.

It's not a one size fits all situation...

Interesting questions mindreality,

As growtutor mentions, not all businesses are the same so you might get different answers to your list of questions as to why things are the way they are. Not all business cultures are the same and depending on the industry, the structure of management and ratio of sales to support staff could vary drastically.
To confuse you even more these roles may not even be identified by the same title in all organizations. Where one organization might call someone a sales person another might call them a “customer advocate”.

You could check out some books on amazon to see if those would help. Heres one,

How a Business Works: What Every Businessperson,...
Alternatively, you could try and reach out to someone in a large organization and interview them. If you ever take business courses at a University, they explain all of these things pretty well but there is really just a general framework as to how organizations operate. Culture, industry, management style at the top, and market conditions all contribute to the way an organization behaves.

Best,

Shawn

You could read 20 guides and each would be different. Big corporations work according to how they are set up and their individual needs and goals. I don't know how it would benefit you to know how a particular company works.
I have worked in several large companies and have a basic knowledge but each one is very different so it's like comparing apples and oranges. They may be both fruit but they're very different.

If I can recommend anything if you incorporate in US, go for either one of the following, and their following reasons:

Delaware - For Fortune 500's as their laws highly favor higher level management
Wyoming - A tax haven but still friendly with IRS, low reporting
Nevada - No tax laws, not considered friendly with IRS

You can also look at Panama as a tax haven.

Incorporate isn't that hard or as hard as some make it seem. I hired a trust company to handle mine but you need to have the same structure as any other corporation like, President, Director, Exceutive, etc... You can sell shares also. In Canada, incorporating privately with the Federal government gives amazing perks such as much lower tax bracket and easier reporting for one (That's for 100% Canadian Owned Companies or CCPC).

I prefer being incorporated in Canada since our dollar is still backed by gold where the USD is inflated beyond sane levels. I can also claim up to $500,000 per year, 100% Tax free to me personally as an executive class officer.

It's very beneficial to incorporate also as a personal assets protection. In a lawsuit, a person would sue the company and not the business owner. Only time the company directors and such are held personally accountable is if they deliveraly broke the law causing loss, such as fraud. Let's say someone broke their leg whilst on your property, you personally cannot be sued but your company would.

Owning a company is like a whole other person who owns the business, you, as president (?) speak and act on behalf of the company. This sentence is the best way I can explain it.

It costs more than starting a business to incorporate but it's well worth it. There's a reason why normal people hate corporations, there's little to no human accountability and get away with so much that a normal person probably coulsn't get away with. There's lots of exploitable loopholes for corporations and the worst part is, the government endorses the use of those loophole programs...

Hoope this helps and I wish you all the best with your new corporation!!

-GoldTrader
Gigas Gaming & Entertainment Inc.

A basic Business 101 course along with a Finance 101 course from any community college or University would answer most, if not all, of your questions.

A corporation is merely a business structure and legally it's an independent legal entity owned by shareholders. So a corporation can be private or it can be public (shares can be purchased on a stock exchange).

How the corporation is run and how it's specifically set up with vary greatly, depending on what kind of business it is, how it collects revenues, etc.

Here are a couple links that will explain some of this:

San Jose Small Business Lawyers - Entrepreneur's Guide to Corporations and How They Work - Small Business FAQ 008 - Business Start Up Attorney - Grellas Shah LLP

How Does a C Corporation Work? | Chron.com

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