As companies grow and scale, injecting accountability structures into the culture becomes critical. As Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Currently, two of the most popular goal setting frameworks are John Doerr’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) method and Gino Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).

One of the hot topics of 2023 in boardrooms and around leadership tables continues to be remote work. The pandemic is over, but companies are still struggling to attract their talent back to the office full time. I am often asked about the state of remote work and when this trend will end. (Spoiler alert: it will not.)

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 investment brings the resources (the carrot), but also brings with it time bound goals for achieving the return (the stick). The investment acts as the catalyst for the business to move to the next level of growth. As we worked with these companies fighting to grow and build a sustainable organization quickly, we realized that the stage of growth a company is in is very important context

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