Scaling a business requires a shift in mindset and skills. What got you here won’t get you there. Let’s explore what it takes to successfully scale a business.

As revenue grows, there is increased pressure on teams to scale up as well. There are key steps required to scale a team and an organization. In this blog post we explore the key steps.

Striking the right balance between praise and punishment with employees is a challenge for most leaders. The term to sharpen your carrots is Groove Management’s way of helping leaders to remember to strike the right balance.

There is a balance that must be achieved in an organization or else too much structure can turn organizational swim lanes into silos.

We tend to focus too much energy on figuring out the root cause of what went wrong and not enough time on what went right. Learning to dissect successes is a business practice that can accelerate an organization’s growth.

Erik Rydholm the executive producer and creator of Pardon the Interruption (PTI) shares the backstory on the visual agenda and how his time at the Motley Fool helped create one of ESPN’s longest running hit TV shows.

If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?

Churnover is a repetitive turnover issue with the same position. There is usually a root cause to the same position turning over multiple times.

With the great resignation challenging businesses, now is the ideal time to forwardfill open roles in your organization.

Do you refer to your work team as a family? What are the pros and cons of doing so? How do scaling organizations maintain a soul? These are some of the questions explored in this blogpost.

Sports teams create advantage through constant personnel moves. Business teams tend to play multiple seasons with the same team. Are there lessons to be learned from the sports model?

Learn how one team turned an IT outage into an amazing growth opportunity. Most teams are quick to accept threats for what they are, in this case the team turned the threat on its head and created an amazing opportunity. Learn how your organization can reframe threats as opportunities from this story.

Covid has disrupted the way that individuals and teams communicate. Would you rather see my body or my face? These are the pros in cons of an in person masked meeting versus a maskless video meeting.

Making work from home work for your organization.

Meetings are the death of work productivity.  According to various sources there are 25 million meetings per day in the United States.  That amounts to $37 billion in annual productivity lost as a result of meetings.  Just yesterday I heard another example of a senior team in a large publicly traded company holding a three-hour meeting to plan for a full day meeting.  The tyranny must end.  

Honest is a rare thing in this day and age. When you come across someone with high integrity it makes you take notice.

My Chance encounter with Herb Kelleher from Southwest airlines

In business we often talk about the iceberg theory and the fact that more lies beneath the surface, but to witness it firsthand and to take away new learnings in Iceland was even more impressive.

Organization design is dictated by market conditions and expands and contracts much like an accordion based on the financial landscape.

Design choices are made daily and many of them lead to poor efficiency and waste.  While redesigning websites I learned an important lesson about UX.