The Reason Behind Flat Growth is Leakage
As you scale your businesses it’s important to prioritize your actions but first you need to audit for leakage. It can occur anywhere in the connected body you call your business. Think of scaling in it’s very basic form as a sequential set of events. If...
The Illusion of Age
It seems the world is fascinated by demographics. Certainly the Japanese have more reason than most: The Japanese Health Ministry estimates the nation’s total population will decrease by 25% from 127.8 million in 2005 to 95.2 million by 2050. Japan’s...
When Should The Company Founder Step Down?
This Question was asked this week in the FT influenced by the embarrassing debate over the future of Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon. The answers by an investor, a current CEO and an academic were helpful and can be summarized as: When someone else can do the...
Creating An Increasingly Powerful Business
How do you sustain the momentum of your business once it starts to move? How do the moving parts connect to drive the vehicle forward? How do you create continuous momentum? I’m not sure leaders are explaining to their teams how this works. Let me help by taking the...