Culture is the Boss

Culture is the Boss

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...
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...