The founder identity crisis hits nearly every growing company between 30 and 80 employees. The skills that built the company to $5M become the ceiling at $10M. The fix is not a new hire or a new process. It is a shift in how the founder leads.
Most founders at the growth plateau hire a consultant when they need a coach. Learn the difference between executive coaching and business consulting, and how to choose the right investment for your stage.
A practitioner breakdown of what a fractional COO actually fixes in the first 90 days, what takes longer, and how to set realistic expectations for the engagement.
Retainer, project, or interim? Each fractional COO engagement model serves a different operational need. Here is how to choose the right one for your company’s stage and goals.
Most leadership teams set Rocks with great intentions and stall by week six. Here are the five execution pitfalls that cause quarterly Rocks to fail and what to do about each one.
Focus Filters are six definitive positions your leadership team agrees on that serve as the criteria for every strategic decision. Learn how to define yours and use them to stop saying yes to everything.
Three roles, three engagement models, three very different outcomes. Learn which operational leadership model fits your company before you waste six months on the wrong one.
Quarterly conversations replace the broken annual review with a structured one-on-one framework every 90 days. Learn the five-step process that builds trust, surfaces issues early, and keeps your best people engaged.
The Vision Traction Organizer compresses your entire strategic direction into two pages your leadership team can execute against every week.
GWC stands for Get it, Want it, Capacity. Three questions that separate a person problem from a seat problem on any leadership team.