Simon Wakeman

Simon Wakeman

Simon is a consultant working founders, leaders and investors to scale sustainably brilliant businesses.

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The real role of leaders

Over the past five months I've interviewed more than 50 founders in scaling businesses for a project I'm working on. As I review the interview transcripts, I notice an interesting divide emerging in how founders see leadership. Leadership as direction The majority see the primary task...

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Holding to account

I've been working with a product scale-up business to create the conditions for a culture of greater accountability in their business. In one conversation we talked about what it really means to hold people to account. It struck me that this is something that is much discussed in...

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Working with organisational debt

Technologists often talk about technical debt. It's the accumulation over time of decisions that prioritise short term speed over well-designed code. Technical debt isn't always obvious to those outside the technology realm. But people across the business feel its effects. Technical debt reduces speed to market,...

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