“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.” I’m not as sure as Thiel is. But I’m absolutely sure that this is a choice we can make as we build businesses. From his insightful book, Zero to One – […]
Greyness is the challenge of leadership
One of the most consistent challenges leaders grapple with as they grow (which is always!) is ambiguity. The continual search for certainty, to define things in a way that is black and white. Whether it’s creating organisational structures, or dealing with performance issues, or promotions, or creating comp plans – the lack of a black […]
Should I scale or should I grow?
Business has an obsession with growth. And usually unlimited growth. A target is set, and we always laud people for beating it. Sometimes with an accelerator for beating it significantly. But although growth is seductive, without scale, it ends up destructive. That’s because the growth that we tend to focus on is top line. Usually […]
To scale up, your team needs to think like mini-CEOs
Many company owners are concerned that no one else on their leadership team thinks like an owner. They need to grow mini-CEOs.
Work is just a part of life
So here’s the thing. We all play at these different roles we have. We get a job, and we play “professional”. We found a company, and we play “CEO”. We assume some self importance, some aura of authority, and feed an ego at some level with our level of importance. But we all have mothers and […]