£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 […]
How to coach managers into leaders. (Without doing their job for them)
Coaching is not redoing the work. It is telling people the standard, then letting them meet it. Here is how to coach managers into leaders without taking the job back.
If hiring feels hard, you delegated it too early
Keep senior hiring on your desk until your judgement and hiring bar are embedded across the business.
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.
Your leadership team does not need less conflict. It needs better conflict
Turn corridor moaning into clean disagreement: challenge decisions in the room, then commit outside it.
Why You Don’t Need More Customers
Stop chasing every prospect. Define your ideal customer and target more of the few accounts driving revenue.
You didn’t hire the wrong people. If every decision still lands on your desk. This is for you.
Stop training good people to return every decision by changing the rules that make asking you safest.
E368 | 60% of Revenue Gone Overnight. From £1.5m to £10 million.
Matthew Duhig - CEO & co-founder of FX Digital.
The rules changed at 100 people. Nobody told you. This is how you fix it.
Beyond 100 people, build cross-team pathways so the business moves faster than your limited attention.
Five reasons your senior team still can’t run the business without you
Find the five systems that reward senior people for waiting, returning unfinished work and routing decisions back to you.
