by Meg Crosby | Apr 25, 2023 | Meg, Running the Gauntlet
Your organization can’t outperform its talent. As you grow and your organization becomes more complex, it becomes necessary to level up your talent. Current employees may need to step up into new responsibilities and new hires with different skills will be required....
by Howard Cleveland | Apr 13, 2023 | Howard
An organization can’t outscale its leadership. Leaders are the load-bearing walls of a building. They are the infrastructure – and, as with construction, you can only scale to the size your infrastructure will support. As an organization grows, it must constantly...
by Meg Crosby | Apr 4, 2023 | Meg, Running the Gauntlet
A lot has been written about organizational culture. Dr. Edgar Schein, renowned professor at MIT Sloane School of Business, considered the grandfather of organizational culture, describes culture as having three components: artifacts, espoused values, and underlying...
by Meg Crosby | Mar 29, 2023 | Meg
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...
by Meg Crosby | Apr 23, 2020 | Meg
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...