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Extreme Accountability: The Key to Scaling Your Business

Dec 15, 2024

Just how serious are you about scaling your business with less drama and friction? Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart. It requires a relentless commitment to ...

Thriving in a VUCA business world requires Business Acumen Capacity

Scaling Up

Business Acumen Capacity: The Essential Skill for Rapidly Scaling Businesses

Dec 8, 2024

Business Acumen Capacity is Rocket Fuel for Scaling Businesses Scaling a business is a high-stakes, high-pressure endeavor where the ability to anticipate what lies ahead—what I ...

Knowing how your people think can be your superpower

Leadership

Knowing How Your People Think Is a Superpower

Oct 23, 2024

Think you know your people? Think again. Talent misalignment is costing you millions—maybe more. Let’s get straight to the point: if you are leading a team without understanding ...

Scaling Leaders face the brutal facts and confront hard truths

Leadership Scaling Up

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 ...

Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning." - Ray Dalio

Leadership

Unleash the Power of Your Team: Why Smart Leaders Mine for the Best Ideas, Not Their Own

Oct 13, 2024

The best ideas win. Let us cut through the noise and get to the heart of what it takes to win. Founders, CEOs, and leaders who believe that their vision alone is enough to drive ...

The Fifth Rockefeller Habit - Engage employees for feedback

Rockefeller Habits

The Rockefeller Habit #5 - Employee input is collected to identify obstacles and opportunities.

Oct 3, 2024

The Fifth Rockefeller Habit - Knowledge is Power In the high-stakes world of business leadership, knowledge is power, and one of the most valuable sources of knowledge is right ...

Rockefeller Habits

The Rockefeller Habit #6 - Reporting and Analysis of Customer Feedback Data is as Frequent and Accurate as Financial Data

Oct 3, 2024

You Are Ignoring Your Most Valuable Asset: Customer Feedback If you are treating customer feedback as an afterthought, you are already losing. Stop. The harsh reality is this: ...

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 ...

Adoption of the Rockefeller Habits is your key to operating in Founder Mode

Rockefeller Habits Founder Mode

Unlocking Founder Mode: The Rockefeller Habits You Must Master to Scale

Sep 26, 2024

The data does not lie. Fortune recently published Is 'founder mode' or 'manager mode' better? Here's what the 22 Fortune 500 companies still run by founders show The data screams. ...

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