E50 | Daniel Marcos: Growing Companies One CEO at a Time
Separate ownership from operating roles, hire better people than you and build a rigorous process for every key appointment.
E48 | Growing and Scaling a Creative Business with Andrew Dobbie
Step away from client delivery early, hire stronger specialists and build a culture that attracts talent before customers.
E47 | Matt Johnson: Bringing Electronics and Our Environment Together
Stay lean while exploring, narrow competing applications and keep only the markets that return value to your business.

How to bring focus and clarity to your business
Focus on your ideal customer, hone your unique strength, define a purpose and BHAG, and align execution around that hedgehog.

Why you need NPS® to grow your business
NPS predicts growth. Happy promoters spend more, refer others, and drive retention.

E41 | From hacker to neuroscientist: how we make choices with Professor Moran Cerf
Your brain explains decisions after hidden processes make them. Understand those limits before trusting instinct or algorithms blindly.
E38 | Neal Gandhi: On Breaking Moulds and Championing Collaboration
Protect each acquired company’s autonomy while uniting the group around shared values, collaboration and a deliberately chosen structure.
E36 | Behind the Scenes of in the Night Garden Live with Creator Andy Fletcher
Plan thoroughly, expect first contact to change it, and give well-paid specialists autonomy to keep the show moving.
E31 | Daring to Dream Bigger with Guy Rigby
Check whether your vision can scale, hire financial control early and recruit for character before comfort makes you risk-averse.
The 5 core principles of successful scale-ups
Scaling needs five things: customer obsession, clear comms, A-players, trust, and a purpose that actually means something.

