5 Founder Mistakes That Silently Kill Your Business

Scaling from 50 to 100 people is where most founders come unstuck. You go from a cosy, know-everyone operation to something bigger, messier, and far less forgiving. The business grows faster than your leadership does, and suddenly the cracks show. Vision gets fuzzy. Delegation collapses. Skills gaps widen. And you, the founder, become the bottleneck you swear you aren’t.

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0:00 – Introduction: The 5 Bottlenecks That Kill Momentum

1:00 – Why You Need to Play to Your Strengths (Not Fix Weaknesses )

2:30 – Mistake #1: Lack of Clarity of Vision (The One-Word Strategy)

4:15 – Case Study: Smart Sourcing’s “People” Strategy

6:00 – Mistake #2: Skills Gap (Does Your Team Have What It Takes?)

7:30 – Mistake #3: Delegation Failure (Why “I’ll Just Do It Myself” Is Killing You)

9:00 – The Liverpool FC Hiring Strategy: Specialists vs Generalists

10:15 – Mistake #4: Micromanagement (Hoarding Work vs Developing Teams)

12:00 – Mistake #5: Self-Awareness (Do You Know Where You’re the Problem?)

14:00 – The Working Genius Framework: Love vs Loathe Exercise

16:00 – Creating Psychological Safety in Your Leadership Team

17:30 – Recap: How These 5 Bottlenecks Interconnect

These five mistakes are interconnected. Fix one, and you’ll start to see movement in the others. But unless you’re honest with yourself about where you’re the problem, you’ll stay stuck. If you’re a founder CEO scaling from 50 to 100 people, you’re probably making at least three of these mistakes right now.

The question is: which ones?

Stuck on any of these? Book a call.

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