Five hard-earned lessons for scaling a SaaS business

TK Kader April 20, 2025

• Scale before message-market fit and you waste everything.
• Spend on growth before it feels comfortable — or never scale.
• Founder-led GTM stays your edge all the way to $10M ARR.

Five strategies to recession-proof your executive career in 2025

Dr. Grace Lee April 5, 2025

• Shift focus from technical skills to communication and strategic alignment.
• Frame every contribution around the organisation's current priority problem.
• Simple, adaptable solutions outperform complex ones in uncertain markets.

The 5 Decision-Making Mistakes That Are Slowing Your Business Down

Layla at ProcessDriven March 27, 2025

The CEO's real job: finding the right next thing every 90 days

Ryan Deiss March 10, 2025

• A CEO's only daily job is finding the single right next thing
• Regrets are more profitable than pride — they reveal what to fix
• Rank 5–7 initiatives by impact; commit to number one, delegate the rest

Buffett and Munger's core principles from 30 years of Berkshire meetings

Founders February 25, 2025

• Mistakes of omission — not buying — cost more than any bad investment
• Opportunity cost is the only filter worth applying to every decision
• Staying in the game long enough lets others invent technology that enriches you

Navigating survival mode: how to lead growth through uncertainty

Coaching for Leaders February 24, 2025

• Uncertainty is a growth opportunity — organisations that learn faster grow faster
• Replace prediction with belief-testing: trends you see, beliefs you act on
• Aligned speed — not planning discipline — is the real competitive advantage

Ametek: Executing a repeatable playbook for industrial domination

Business Breakdowns February 12, 2025

• Serial acquirer of niche industrial components; dominates small $200–300M markets with 25–30% share
• Expanded operating margins from 16% to 26% through operational excellence, pricing power, and scale
• Decentralized model with 42 business units drives accountability and recurring 35%+ incremental margins

How to craft a vivid vision that aligns your team around a shared future

Cameron Herold January 31, 2025

• Why the CEO must write the vision alone — not with the team
• Vague culture statements fail; vivid specifics drive real alignment
• Delaying a vivid vision cost one CEO six months and two leaders

Five leverage skills every founder needs to build a billion-dollar company

Dan Martell January 31, 2025

• Culture determines whether all other leverage compounds or collapses.
• Hire in a fixed sequence: assistant, delivery, marketing, sales, leadership.
• Pre-selling to customers funds growth without giving up any equity.

How Strategic Coach's DOS framework sharpens entrepreneur thinking

EOS Worldwide January 16, 2025

• Naming your fears and opportunities is the hardest — and highest-leverage — work.
• EOS rebuilt its software by fixing the 'who', not the 'how'.
• DOS conversations with clients generated record quarters during the 2008 downturn.

How the SWT tool turns crisis into strategic opportunity

Bill Gallagher December 31, 2024

• Cutting costs buys time — SWT gives you the way out.
• Pivot to what customers are actually buying now, not before.
• Map your strengths against emerging trends to find the move.

The technology supercycle: AI, sensors, and biotech converging

Masters of Scale December 12, 2024

• AI, sensors, and biotech are converging — most organisations are missing it
• Cultured meat, synthetic materials, weight-loss drugs: convergence already reshaping industries
• Regulation can't keep pace; data trusts offer a credible alternative governance model

SpaceX: how radical cost reduction is reshaping the space economy

Business Breakdowns December 4, 2024

• Falcon 9 built for a tenth of NASA's cost estimate.
• Starlink turns launch infrastructure into a recurring revenue flywheel.
• Starship at $10/kg could make space manufacturing economically rational.

Informa: how the world's largest live events business was built

Business Breakdowns November 20, 2024

• Owning the IP, not the venue, produces 30–40% operating margins.
• Negative working capital grows stronger as the events portfolio scales.
• First-party B2B intent data may be the most underappreciated asset in media.

How to choose between big tech, startups, and founding your own company

EO November 11, 2024

• Big tech teaches scale; startups teach zero-to-one — pick deliberately
• Skills learned at Google must be actively unlearned to found a startup
• Burnout comes from lack of progress, not from working too many hours