As a founder, you’re all about the big ideas, vision and accelerated growth to achieve global domination! You don’t have time, or even need, old-school planning and documents (that might just sit on a shelf). Yeah, we know. And we also know that’s what the other 90% of failed startups said too. So, why was […]
Category Archives: Leadership
Are you adapting your leadership strategy as your start-up grows?
Unfortunately many leaders do not adapt their role as the business grows. Ron Ashkenas provides important insights into the importance of evolving. By Ron Ashkenas Pivoting from an initial product design or business model has become a given in the startup playbook. But even as startup leaders shift their businesses to meet a newly discovered […]
A leader’s guide to shaping company culture
Culture is learned behaviour. Our organisational cultures are created through the actions we take – not the other way around. In this article, EY talks us through what this means. By EY Successful corporate cultures are organic: They evolve in response to the organization’s needs and keep employees working together with a shared sense of […]
What do the best employers do differently
Three years of research to provide us with insights into why some employers are better than others – that’s worth a longform read! Published in the Harvard Business Review, 12 December 2019 What makes a company culture great? To explore this question, my colleague, Bill Baker and I spent the last three years researching the […]
What it really means to be a strategic thinker
Strategic thinking feels like a vague, ungraspable buzzword business-types throw out to sound important. The truth: it’s literally child’s play. Dorie Clark explains in her LinkedIn Learning course, Strategic Thinking. When we are young, we question everything. Our favorite word when we are 2-years-old – why. And then, society smashes that out of us. “We spend a lot of our […]