Bill Gallagher
About this creator
Bill Gallagher is a scaling coach focused on leadership discipline, operational clarity, and helping founder-led companies build repeatable execution systems.
Why they're in the library
Included for clear, credible perspective as scaling coach focused on leadership discipline, operational clarity, and helping founder-led companies build repeatable execution systems.
Showing 417 digests for Bill Gallagher.
How to prepare, pivot, and invest to thrive through a recession
Bill Gallagher
July 1, 2020
Pivoting
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Shifting to recurring revenue before a downturn can multiply your exit value.
Spending on marketing while competitors retreat buys outsized attention cheaply.
Baby boomer business owners create a rare acquisition window right now.
Tom Peters on why people are the only thing that matters in business
Bill Gallagher
June 24, 2020
Management
10
Delegation
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Excellence is how you behave in the next five minutes, not a destination.
MBWA works because genuine curiosity about people is intrinsically rewarding.
One bad hire can destroy culture — give everyone veto power in interviews.
How business leaders can respond to social unrest, racism, and compounded crisis
Bill Gallagher
June 17, 2020
Communication
8
Culture building
7
Silence in a crisis is a choice — and an expensive one for leaders
Diverse boards and teams consistently outperform homogeneous ones
Empathy is a learnable skill that changes how leaders listen and act
Simple data-driven marketing that actually scales
Bill Gallagher
June 10, 2020
Growth hacking
9
Automation & tools
7
Unit economics
6
Calculate true cost per customer — total budget divided by new customers acquired.
Build repeatable marketing playbooks before chasing new channels or tactics.
Point marketing at your highest-margin products, not everything at once.
How asking for help unlocks growth when self-reliance becomes the bottleneck
Bill Gallagher
June 3, 2020
Delegation
9
Resilience & grit
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Self-reliance that saved you as a child caps your company's growth
Childhood patterns — not bad strategy — are usually what blocks founders
Tools only work once the leader does the inner work first
How to make your business more valuable by doing less
Bill Gallagher
May 27, 2020
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
8
Communication
7
Outsourcing first — before optimising — sets everyone up for failure
Indecision has a measurable 23x multiplier effect on team slowdown
A business tied to its founder can't be sold, funded, or scaled
How DSP Concepts scaled an audio platform from consulting shop to Series B
Bill Gallagher
May 20, 2020
Case studies
10
Business operating systems
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
90% of audio engineering time wasted on chip code, not invention
Becoming the default platform standard wins a fragmented market
Hire senior management early — spreading exec function prevents founder stretch
Crisis leadership: why people matter most in a downturn
Bill Gallagher
May 17, 2020
Management
9
Culture building
7
Communication
6
Your crisis behavior is leadership judgment day — act accordingly
MBWA still works remotely: call people, ask about their lives
Tiny courtesies and genuine listening outlast any clever strategy
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Managing stress and emotional blocks for entrepreneurs in crisis
Bill Gallagher
May 13, 2020
Resilience & grit
9
Communication
6
Your crisis reaction is likely an old childhood trauma, not the current event.
Avoiding emotional discomfort costs businesses months and millions in delayed decisions.
A three-step process to name, story-test, and root-trace any emotional block.
Running remote teams and pivoting business during a crisis
Bill Gallagher
May 6, 2020
Processes & SOPs
9
Remote teams
8
Pivoting
7
Zoom fatigue is real — breakout rooms and 90-minute limits fix it
Cheap government debt is a war chest for acquisitions, not a lifeline
Waiting for normal to return hands your customers to competitors who adapted
How a speaker box manufacturer pivoted to PPE during COVID-19 lockdown
Bill Gallagher
April 29, 2020
Pivoting
10
Management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
CNC speaker machinery repurposed to manufacture FDA-approved face shields
Revenue collapsed 80% in a week — full workforce rehired within a month
17 years of Asia sourcing unlocked mask supply when US shelves were empty
Remote work, crisis pivots, and funding strategy for scaling businesses
Bill Gallagher
April 25, 2020
Pivoting
8
Fundraising & VC
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Businesses that ask 'how can I be indispensable?' outpace those waiting for normal.
PPP forgiveness obsession caused most owners to miss a low-cost million-dollar growth loan.
Breakout rooms, 90-minute limits, and directional mics fix the biggest remote-meeting failures.
Crisis leadership
YouTube
Leading through crisis: purpose, values, and adapting to a new normal
Bill Gallagher
April 22, 2020
Crisis leadership
9
Resilience & grit
7
Humans adapt to sustained adversity — shock gives way to action.
False promises destroy credibility faster than bad news ever will.
Crisis is when values-aligned decisions from the past pay off.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to identify and fix the vital need in your business right now
Bill Gallagher
April 15, 2020
Long-term planning
10
Pivoting
7
Resilience & grit
6
Most crisis responses move you further from the real problem
A five-level hierarchy tells you exactly which need to fix first
Peel back your offering one step at a time to find what you can sell now
Leading through crisis: what four scaling coaches are seeing and doing
Bill Gallagher
April 8, 2020
Pivoting
9
Management
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Why you must cut costs ruthlessly before any pivot will work
Crisis events permanently reshape industries — COVID is no different
Pivot within your existing competence; greenfield bets fail in downturns