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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.
A Four-Step Method to Becoming a More Focused Founder
Focus is one of the hardest things to achieve as a founder or any leader who finds the need to wear many hats.
Hey Founder ... I’d Like You to Know that I Hear You.
Dear Founder … I’d like you to know that I hear you.
Three Ways Founders Can Supercharge Their Energy
In part two of our series on leading with boldness, we look at ways to optimize a founder’s most important resource: resonant energy.
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.
3 Blind Spots Founders Should Look Out For
The old adage, "what you don't know can't hurt you" does’t apply to leading a company and may be the thing that’s damaging your efforts most.
A 360 Can Help You See Your Blind Spots in a New Light
As a leader, you owe it to your team to bring your best to work. Who better to help you do it than your team?
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.