Sharpening Your Focus

Sharpening Your Focus

Sharpening your focus seems obvious enough, but when your company has multiple opportunities and a host of growth-related challenges it can be hard to do. Plus, how you go about sharpening your focus changes at each stage of a company’s growth. As an early-stage...
The Four Stages of High Growth

The Four Stages of High Growth

Our practice has largely focused on high growth companies who have raised capital from private equity investors. High growth businesses, particularly those that are private equity backed, have an added dimension of complexity – limited time and resources. The PE...
Introducing the Six Imperatives for High Growth

Introducing the Six Imperatives for High Growth

Growth is hard. Taking an idea from inception and turning it into a stable, predictable, sustainable double-digit year over year high growth company is one of the most exciting and excruciating challenges a leader will face. It’s a 24/7 job that can often feel like...
Innovation vs. innovation

Innovation vs. innovation

Innovate or die. The accelerated pace of technology disruption is putting companies under increasing pressure to innovate. But many companies miss the fact that there are two kinds of innovation and to win, you need to be good at both. “Capital I” Innovation...
The Dark Side of the “Family” Culture

The Dark Side of the “Family” Culture

I have worked with many companies who have described their culture first and foremost as “a family.” What they generally mean is that they greatly value the relationships that they have with their colleagues at work. Though there is nothing wrong with building strong...
The Crisis in 3 Phases

The Crisis in 3 Phases

Co-Authored by Katie Spencer & Meg Crosby We have all been swept up in a tsunami of change that hit us hard and fast and has left us disoriented, exhausted, and with miles and miles to swim before we’re back on dry land. As we look to the horizon and plot our...