leadership - Build by Simon Wakeman

Systems thinking in scaling business

Systems thinking is a way of thinking about your business. It helps leaders better understand their organisation and how to maximise their impact.

Great founders don't necessarily make great CEOs. Being deliberate about founder role transitions is often overlooked in scaling businesses.

If you're always firefighting in your business, don't become a better firefighter. Reduce founder traps and find a sustainable growth path.

Good leaders develop a deep sense of what's really going on in their business. Sensemaking is a tool to help them with this.

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.

Chefs use mise en place to reduce future complexity. Founders and leaders in scaling businesses can do the same.