Most people dread "going corporate," drowning in red tape and rules that mostly make it harder to solve problems and get work done. But the truth about process is that when it's missing it invites serious culture problems. Good systems and processes not only solve problems, they support your people and make it easier for them to win.
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Each new stage of growth makes it a little more complicated and a little tougher to stay on top things. You need to build new kinds of formal infrastructure, planning and organization to know what’s really happening and manage the increased workload. Learn how to avoid flying blind.
Read MoreNobody wants to "go corporate." But at a certain growth point you just can't work hard enough to solve all the problems. You have to BUILD SYSTEMS. Learn the difference between informal and formal infrastructure so you can figure out what to focus on next to protect what you've built and keep winning.
Read MoreGrowth, and the success that causes it, can be great fun and create great profit.
It can be hard to believe you’re in trouble when your bank statement looks so good. But just because it looks like you’re doing well, doesn’t mean you actually are.
A big pile of money can hide a multitude of sins.
Read MoreMeetings are one of the most expensive things your company does. Not only do they burn TIME, and a lot of it, bad meetings also burn energy and momentum. If you’re consistently seeing a lot of the behaviors below, you’re probably better off cancelling your meeting than you are having it.
Plus, what's really going wrong and what to do about it.
Read MoreWant better, more productive meetings where more gets done and less brain damage is suffered?
When you apply process science and some tricks from human behavior you get three really smart ways to make meetings a whole lot better.
Read MoreLearn the real problems growth causes and how to scale successfully by focusing on infrastructure.
Read MoreGrowing pains are a normal part of growth. Lots of growing pains are part of being a fast-growth company. Assuming you can stop long enough to look around, how do you tell the difference between normal growing pains and something more serious?
There are five common complaints that, together, should tell you that you’re not dealing with a normal problem but a major one.
Read MorePeople like to talk about how businesses got too big or grew too fast. They're wrong. Growth and speed are not the problem with scalability. The problem is that you need infrastructure; systems and processes and skills.
Read MoreTyranny comes in many forms. The revolutionaries had the mad King George. Your tyrant may have a different name. Like fear. Or failure. Yours might be called the economy, or the industry or the competition. For some tyranny goes by the name debt or addiction or disease or death.
The worst of our tyrants tend to be the ones of our own minds and our own makings.
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