Six articles for founders and CEOs on navigating the sharp edges of scaling, drawing on lived experience and exploring how successful businesses face high growth challenges.
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“I wish I knew that before.”
Growth brings opportunities and challenges, and too often business leaders navigate them without prior experience. So they resort to guesswork. The mistakes get made — after all, they have never done it before. Then some of those mistakes set in motion a sequence of events that means value is lost, or outcomes become more volatile.
This report is about the point where the decisions that worked at one stage start to create friction at the next. Not failure. Friction. The kind that shows up quietly, across multiple parts of the business, when you are already busy enough that it is easy to defer.
The 10% growth rate is a useful reference point: fast enough to feel like progress, comfortable enough that scrutiny relaxes.
Inside the report
- The Cash Trap — Why your best growth month left you short of cash, and what to do about it.
- The Big-Business Hire — What happens when you hire someone with big-business experience for the wrong stage.
- The Sales Bottleneck — Why your business stopped scaling the day you became its best salesperson.
- Operational House of Cards — When the workarounds stop working.
- The Value Leak — How a 10% revenue increase became a 15% cost increase, and nobody noticed.
- The 10% Breaking Point — What all five growth challenges have in common, and what they are really telling you.
Who it is for
Founders, CEOs and leadership teams in businesses that are growing, and starting to feel the strain of growing. Written from lived experience by advisors who have built, scaled and exited businesses themselves.
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