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The Quality Of Your Organization Doesn’t matter… Until It Does
Something painful happens when your startup hits a headcount of about 150.
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Please Don’t Kill The Donkey…
Imagine a basket weaver working from his home in a rural village.
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The Big Transformation Every Scale-Up CEO Needs To Make — But Few Succeed At
Fred Wilson, the renowned VC, says that every startup will replace its core team three times on its way to scale.
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Updates Are A Waste Of Time
Want to know how healthy a company is?
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Training Doesn’t Help… Rituals Do
To build a unicorn, your people need to perform at their best — even in the heat of battle
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What’s A High Performance Organization?
It’s hard to be great when you don’t know what great looks like.
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Are You Scaling? Or Just Growing…
I was recently chatting with the CHRO of a highly successful tech startup.
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Are You A One-Eyed CEO?
In a previous post, I wrote about the point in the scaling journey where too many CEOs fail miserably: the transition from a stage 2 to a stage 3 CEO.
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The 7 Hidden Advantages Of The Day Zero Organization (And How Not To Lose Them)
Think back to the birth of your startup.
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Is Your Company a Machine? Or Is It A Community?
Is your organization like a machine that needs programming?
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You’re Not Really Leading Unless You’re Doing This
Imagine you’ve just been hired as the new sales director of a billion-dollar software company.
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You Can’t Solve A Problem If You Can’t Talk About It
Why do we have meetings?
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