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Learning To Let Go
Knowing when and how to empower your team is the founder's chief task during corporate adolescence. Here are some tips for taking this big step.
When You Have to Fire a Friend
Letting a friend go is never easy, but you will emerge stronger—and so will your friend—if you maintain your presence of mind and consider these tips.
Are You Ready to Give Your Company Room to Grow?
You need to understand that what got you to where you are today absolutely will not get you where you want to go tomorrow.
How to Get Your Business Through Adolescence
You have a challenge before you: you need to understand that what got you to where you are today absolutely, positively will not get you where you want to go tomorrow.
Is Fear Interfering with Your Strategy?
So, you’re having a hard time letting go of the control you held over your company — the control that worked very well in turning an idea into a viable and fast-growing business?
ScalePassion Partners with Former Navy Officer and McKinsey Consultant Tim Berthold
An expert in building self-managing teams, Tim offers help to founders in connecting the dots between strategy and execution.
The Key to Leadership Transition is Collaboration
Congratulations! The secret is to keep breathing and onboard your replacement with a minimum of drama and a maximum of collaborative goodwill.
Founders' Fire: A Three-Step Guide for Reigniting Passion in Your Growing Business
The culture of your organization should resonate with your founding energy. Make your Founder's Anthem part of the daily conversation.
Hey Founder ... I’d Like You to Know that I Hear You.
Dear Founder … I’d like you to know that I hear you.
Is Your Employee Toxic or Simply Misunderstood?
Bad behavior can conceal something important that you owe it to yourself, your team and your business to reveal. Here’s how.
Four Traits Bold Leaders Share: Part 1, Integrity
Integrity is about acting on your commitments and purpose every day and setting an example for your team to follow.
ScalePassion Introduces Brand Strategist Steve Klinetobe to Our Team
Brand strategy is really about articulating what drives the company, where it gets its energy from and capturing that in a way that is lasting.
You Need to have Tactical and Strategic Meetings—But Not at the Same Time
Founders need to have tactical and strategic meetings, but not at the same time.
Three Ways to Manage Your Energy in 15 Minutes a Day!
These practical energy boosters help you center yourself so you can lead others from a place of maximum integrity.
Hey Founder, Are Your Directors Running the Show? (Let’s Hope So!)
It’s not the founder. It’s not the VPs. It’s not the board. The directors tell you when your company is having a healthy corporate adolescence.
Onboard Your External Partners Like a Pro
Taking a proactive approach to onboarding external partners for your company will go a long way towards ensuring a successful partnership.
What To Do When You Lose an Investor
Course correcting after a setback takes a clear head free of drama. Here’s how to get there fast.
Why Founders Should Care More about Being Curious than Right
The second of 15 conscious commitments, curiosity is all about staying in the present.
Hey Founder, I Understand You’re Slipping Below the Line
Keeping yourself above the line takes practice. Here are four questions to help you reach peak fitness.
6 Steps to Keep Founders in Transition Focused for the Next Chapter
Ready to move on to your next big idea? Follow these steps to ensure your personal passion will have the support it needs.