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Transplanting talent: Learning from Richard and Ronald
For many threatened with long-term or acute organ failure, organ transplant may be the only option. The greatest risk to these patients, aside from the inevitable risk that comes with surgery, is...
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The systems and capabilities table
As companies seek to grow and achieve scale while maintaining their Founder’s MentalitySM, they face one constant: the tension between building a professional organization and maintaining a company’s...
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Benga: The best of cultural integration
In our discussion about the importance of storytelling in keeping the Founder’s Mentality℠ alive, we mentioned that it is critical to tell stories of how new recruits have added to the original...
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Bringing in the professionals
I wrote this on my flight from Fuzhou to Shanghai after a wonderful set of meetings with the founders and president of Yonghui Superstores. This is an amazing Chinese success story, although the...
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Helping the lettuce grow: Training and scale
In this blog, we’ve explored specific actions founders and professional managers can take to capture the benefits of scale and scope while retaining the Founder’s Mentality℠. In earlier posts, we laid...
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Passing on the culture of business building
I was in Jakarta recently meeting with founders of some of Indonesia’s leading companies. One of these was Dr. Hc. Ir. Ciputra, a serial founder who has started and floated three businesses and is one...
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Recruiting and the power of astonishment
While in Shanghai a few weeks back, I was talking to one group of founders about the importance of recruiting. They mentioned two things: First, they take personal accountability for all senior...
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Whatever happened to peer-to-peer learning?
In our meetings on the Founder’s MentalitySM, I keep running across a common theme—the decline of “adult conversation.” By this, I mean the loss of peer-to-peer learning as companies scale. Consider...
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Closing the talent gap: Seven tips from Dubai
We’ve discussed the talent gap faced by insurgent companies several times in these blog posts—noting that they face many years where their revenue grows faster than talent, leaving them in a perpetual...
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The economics of empowerment
We just finished our eighth Developing Market 100 meeting of 2014, this time in Jakarta. One of our most important discussions there focused on the question of “What’s happened to our heroes?”—and that...
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