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Comfort is the Enemy of Growth - Why Scaling Leaders Confront Brutal Facts

Oct 20, 2024

Scaling Leaders Do Not Dodge Uncomfortable Realities. What if I told you the biggest threat to your company’s growth is not your competitors, but your refusal to confront the ...

Scaling Up

Scaling Fast? Why Transformational Leadership is the Only Path to Sustainable Growth

Oct 1, 2024

The clock is ticking. Your company is growing fast, but let me ask you this: do you have the right leadership framework in place to sustain this growth, or are you relying on ...

The key to scaling up is hiring only A Players - the top 20 percent who produce 80 percent of the results

Scaling Up Team Effectiveness

Scaling Up: Pareto Optimality and The Power of Building an A-Player Team

Sep 20, 2024

Those who command the best talent dominate the market. The war for talent is relentless, and the stakes could not be higher. You cannot afford to simply have a team of ...

Founders need to operate in Founder Mode

Scaling Up

The Loneliness of Vision: Understanding Founders in Founder Mode

Sep 14, 2024

Being a Founder is much, much more than just a job Being a founder is not just a job. It is a way of being, an unrelenting pursuit of a vision that others often cannot see—much ...

Scaling Up

Founder Mode: The Entrepreneurial Mindset That Separates Visionaries from Mediocrity

Sep 8, 2024

Founder Mode and Scaling Up a Business Successfully scaling up a business requires much more than just hiring well, trusting processes and keeping employee team members happy. ...

Scaling Up

Cultivating Idea Meritocracy: Why Diversity Beats Validation

Aug 27, 2024

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Scaling Up

Facing the Brutal Facts: Overcoming the Icarus Syndrome in Rapidly Scaling Companies

Aug 20, 2024

There is perhaps no better legal high than riding the trajectory of a rapidly scaling company. On its surface, it seems that one can do no wrong. Everything that gets touched ...

Scaling Up

Scaling Your Business in a VUCA World.

Jul 30, 2024

You and your team / organization are either riding and exploiting VUCA – or VUCA is riding you. Originating from the U.S. Army to describe the post-Cold War world, “VUCA” is an ...

A race between the fox and the hedgehog concept

Scaling Up

Unleash the Power of the Hedgehog Concept

Feb 11, 2024

If you are like me, you have read Good to Great by Jim Collins multiple times. Chances are you also have a special place on your bookshelf reserved in perpetuity for this great ...

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