Scaling Up
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Verne Harnish is known for scaling-company frameworks that improve strategic focus, management rhythm, and execution discipline.
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Why "core values" is the wrong label for company rules
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
October 23, 2025
Culture building
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Management
6
- Calling them "values" forces you to hire people who think like you
- Atlassian's rules stayed fixed across 50 to 14,000 employees
- Rules enable diversity; values-based hiring kills it
AI tools & automation
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Five AI-powered engineers outperforming forty-five: lessons from one UK firm
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
October 10, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Automation & tools
6
- 5 engineers with AI outperformed 45 at one-quarter the payroll cost
- Elite AI talent will cost as much as professional sports stars
- Liberal arts prompt writers, not coders, lead the highest-performing teams
How FGH Security 10x'd revenue in seven years using Scaling Up
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
September 26, 2025
Case studies
10
Business operating systems
7
Culture building
6
- From £3M to £33M in seven years with one coach
- 10% of payroll reinvested in frontline staff development
- Blue-chip brand clients create a halo effect for further growth
Resilience & grit
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Three recurring fears every generation gets wrong about the future
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
September 19, 2025
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
- Doomsday predictions have repeated for 500 years — none came true.
- Every generation blamed new technology for ruining the young.
- AI may restore pre-industrial work hours, not eliminate jobs.
How to expand beyond your local market using niche dominance
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
September 12, 2025
Niche selection
10
Long-term planning
8
- The US is only 23% of the global economy — most founders ignore the rest
- Hidden Champions dominate narrow global niches with margins up to 50%
- Follow existing customers abroad for instant revenue and a market foothold
Strategic planning requires two separate teams and two separate activities
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
August 22, 2025
Management
9
Business operating systems
7
- Strategic planning is two activities, not one — most teams get this wrong
- CEO sets strategy in hour one, then leaves the room
- The Jobs/Cook split: one strategist, one orchestrator
Resilience & grit
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Your own energy and health is the number one constraint to scaling
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
July 11, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Culture building
6
- The real scaling bottleneck is the founder's physical energy, not strategy.
- Traditional medicine masks symptoms; root-cause testing changes outcomes.
- Fixing five overlooked deficiencies eliminated a chronic disease entirely.
Weekly CEO communication as the core culture-reinforcement routine
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
June 27, 2025
Communication
9
Culture building
8
- Silence from the CEO makes employees invent their own narrative
- Weekly message — email, voicemail, or video — is enough to hold culture
- UWM scaled 200 to 9,000 employees on a daily 90-second CEO video
The one attribute shared by Einstein, Da Vinci, Jobs, and Musk
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
June 20, 2025
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
5
- Isaacson's matrix across geniuses points to one differentiator: curiosity
- Curiosity in interviews makes candidates open up — including sharing bad news
- Intense curiosity is trainable, not innate — practise it in a mirror
Why every winning CEO names their strategy
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
June 5, 2025
Vision & mission
9
Communication
6
- A nameless strategy stays in the boardroom — never the floor
- Best Buy's named 'Renew Blue' strategy drove a 10x valuation jump
- The name becomes a daily decision filter for every employee
How CEOs gather honest employee intel for continuous improvement
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 29, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
- Frontline employees hold the truth your data will never show
- Six proven methods CEOs use to extract weekly honest feedback
- 1% weekly improvement compounds — acting on intel is the edge
Three tests for building a self-managing executive team
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 19, 2025
Management
9
Delegation
7
- If you're nudging them, you don't have the right person in that seat
- Zuckerberg, Chesky, and Jensen all ditched structured one-on-ones
- Daily huddles replace hours of 1:1s and surface trends in days not months
Pricing power and innovation as the key drivers of business valuation
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 12, 2025
Pricing strategy
9
Business models
7
- Buffett's top investment criterion: how much can a company charge?
- One business-model innovation unlocks compounding, variable pricing power.
- Fixed pricing leaves a triangle of profit on the table — always.
Business operating systems
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Five biomimicry principles for scaling companies with less drama
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 5, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Management
7
- A $500k prize unlocked $6 billion in gold by crowdsourcing geologists
- Superorganisms choose leaders who share knowledge, not hoard it
- Resilience is the wrong goal — antifragile organisations get stronger from stress
Hiring & recruitment
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Finding talent in overlooked pools as AI reshapes work
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
April 28, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
- AI leaves only two human roles: creative work and soldiers
- Hiring from competitors costs more and requires untraining them
- Overlooked talent pools — gyms, shoe stores, athletes — outperform obvious pipelines