The craft of company building
Growing a business is about the craft of building a company that's resilient, stable and enduring.
Growing a business is about the craft of building a company that's resilient, stable and enduring.
A simple technique for designing senior leadership roles in scaling businesses.
Founders and CEOs talk a lot about scaling businesses, but typically pay a lot less attention to building the organisation that lies behind any successfully scaled business. And when the organisation is talked about, it's often considered in terms of organisational structure, reporting lines and job descriptions. This...
Great founders don't necessarily make great CEOs. Being deliberate about founder role transitions is often overlooked in scaling businesses.
Decisions control the flow of work in your business. Pay attention to how and when they're made as well as who decides about what.
Recently a client told me I have a "no such thing as a growth hack" speech. She explained that on several occasions, I've pushed back when she's suggested a course of action that doesn't really reflect the reality in her fast growth...
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...
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...
Growing a business is about the craft of building a company that's resilient, stable and enduring.
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,...
Last weekend I finished my first 50 mile ultra run. With 4000 metres of climbing and a lot of mud in England's Lake District, it was the hardest physical challenge I've taken on yet. When running ultra distances every step I run is crucial. How my...