Stop being unfair to the people doing the work
Paying the person doing the work the same as the person watching is the unfair deal. Here’s why founder-CEOs should pay high performers more.
Scaling is hard until you fix these 5 things
Running your company isn’t just getting harder. It’s getting slower. A decision that used to take you a day now takes 3 weeks. Nothing about it got more difficult. It’s just sat in a queue behind everything else in your head. Every sign-off, every discount, every hire below your senior team, every pricing call nobody […]
The founder CEO must own AI
Your team may be saving time with AI while the business sees little benefit. Learn where to focus your attention, how to tackle your biggest constraint and what only you can lead.
£5M to £35M in 3 Years | Steve Sharp, NUVO | E372 | Steve started on his own business at 21. There’s 400 of them now
I was chatting to Steve Sharp , CEO and founder of Nuvo, on the pod this week. An accountancy firm in Derby, 400 people, built by buying up the practices whose partners wanted to retire. He left school at 16, qualified at 20, the youngest in the country that year, and set the firm up […]
E370 | James Ashford, 8-Figure Founder: The Person You’re Protecting Is Destroying Your Business
James Ashford explains why weak founder beliefs, principles and standards make every visible business layer wobble.
Should CEOs do one-to-ones with their executive team? No. Coach the team.
Six one-to-ones a week is a working day spent keeping your executives apart. Here is why Huang, Chesky and Zuckerberg stopped, and what to do instead.
80% of businesses never sell. The hedge that taught me more than any business exit book.
Happy wife, happy life. The business runs better on it too, I’ve found. So you’d think I’d have got this one right. Geri wanted the neighbours screened off. Something about sunbathing, and the peeping toms next door getting an eyeful. Said it was a man’s job.I said leave it with me. 240 bare-root whips, in […]
From 7-day grind to 2-day CEO: Developing your leadership team
Stop being the bottleneck. Build leaders who run the business without you. And finally get your life back.
8 reasons why executive teams fail to set productive goals
Executive teams fail at goal-setting due to discomfort with accountability, lack of A-Players, and poor prioritisation.
Level 5 leadership: being humble doesn’t make the hard decisions easier
You can be considerate, well liked and still let a problem run a year too long. Level 5 leadership is what you do with the decision you have been postponing.
