Strategy: Business operating systems
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Why most business leaders harvest instead of grow
Alex M H Smith
May 14, 2026
Business operating systems
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Pivoting
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- Creating value and collecting value are fundamentally different activities
- Every harvest erodes the asset — replanting is non-negotiable, not optional
- Optimising funnels and copying competitors is harvesting a crop that hasn't grown yet
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Should you go to Silicon Valley, and how can Stockholm thrive as a startup hub?
Y Combinator
May 13, 2026
Business operating systems
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Bootstrapping
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Identity & self-belief
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- Serendipitous meetings in startup hubs drive outsized life outcomes
- Going to Silicon Valley then returning is the best thing for Stockholm
- Critical mass for a European Silicon Valley is still up for grabs
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19 tips for reaching seven figures in revenue
KeyPersonOfInfluence
May 10, 2026
Business operating systems
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Sales systems & CRM
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Growth hacking
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- Every business idea must link to Leads, Appointments, Presentations, or Sales.
- Manufacture excess demand so you can choose your ideal clients.
- Give ideas away free — charge only for implementation.
Business operating systems
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How to keep your company from being corrupted as it grows
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
May 10, 2026
Business operating systems
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Business structure
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Management
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- Only 20% of founders remain CEO three years after their IPO.
- Filing a Public Benefit Corporation charter costs nothing and protects everything.
- Mission-aligned companies outperform on speed, talent, and long-term shareholder returns.
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How EOS Worldwide killed its software business and reset for growth
EOS Worldwide
May 4, 2026
Business operating systems
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Pivoting
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Management
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- Chasing software multiples nearly destroyed a profitable franchise business
- A single board meeting data point made the right path obvious
- Letting 38 people go in one day was the price of realignment
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Five leadership abilities that break entrepreneurs through the ceiling
EOS Worldwide
May 1, 2026
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Delegation
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Processes & SOPs
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- The entrepreneur is usually the bottleneck — delegation is the unlock.
- A focused team beats a productive one that zigzags without direction.
- Simplify one thing per quarter; complexity at scale compounds against you.
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Forced into leadership: rebuilding a failing family restaurant from scratch
EOS Worldwide
April 28, 2026
Business operating systems
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Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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- A founder's brain aneurysm exposes a business with zero systems
- Checklists cut a 45-minute training task to 20 minutes, done perfectly
- Showing employees how daily decisions affect their bonus drives ownership
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Built to Sell: how to make your business valuable and exit-ready
Business Book Club
April 27, 2026
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Processes & SOPs
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Management
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- Why being indispensable to your business makes it unsellable
- Specialising in one thing is how services actually scale
- Promoting on effort over outcomes creates a weak management layer
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Hitting the Ceiling: a podcast for entrepreneurs who've hit their limits
EOS Worldwide
April 17, 2026
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Management
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- The moments entrepreneurs never talk about have a name.
- Five abilities — simplify, delegate, predict, systemize, structure — break the ceiling.
- Built for founders who are stuck and know they're the bottleneck.
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Three systems that separate $2M CEOs from $20M CEOs
Ryan Deiss
March 31, 2026
Business operating systems
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Management
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Resilience & grit
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- Your anxiety points at noise, not the one constraint that matters.
- A four-test filter turns emotional decisions into principle-based ones.
- Pre-mortems diagnose broken assumptions before blame derails learning.
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Why corporate innovation fails and what actually works
Lean Startup Co.
March 26, 2026
Business operating systems
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Management
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Fundraising & VC
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- Release budget only when teams deliver validated evidence, not before.
- Three root causes kill most programs before a single idea is tested.
- Every entrepreneur's real job is selling — everything else is secondary.
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Elon Musk's core principles for building companies and technology
Founders
March 24, 2026
Business operating systems
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Resilience & grit
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Management
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- Why physics — not optimism — is the only valid judge of your work
- The five-step algorithm Elon runs at every company, in strict order
- Speed is offense and defense: a 2x faster factory equals two factories
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Why most businesses stall at $1M and how to break through
Ryan Deiss
March 20, 2026
Business operating systems
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Delegation
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- Your effort has a ceiling — the business must outgrow you.
- Decision hoarding makes the founder the only bottleneck that matters.
- Self-sabotage kicks in unconsciously when success exceeds your internal set point.
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20 Business Cheat Codes: From Broke to $100M CEO
Dan Martell
March 16, 2026
Business operating systems
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Pricing psychology
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Processes & SOPs
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- Sell before building — pre-selling validates demand and protects time and money.
- Never discount; use a bonus bank of add-ons to close deals at full price.
- Cut complexity first — remove products, features, and processes before adding new ones.
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Building a $400,000 independent marketing business without a team
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 2, 2026
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Content marketing
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Closing techniques
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- Great results alone won't grow your business — systems will.
- 85% of customers won't buy until you've nurtured them for a year.
- Niching down took one marketer from $1M to $10M in revenue.