How Real Leaders Strategize Business to Grow

Work The System

In this episode, Ron Carucci — founder of organizational consultancy firm, Navalent — gives hard and fast advice on why leaders struggle to grow and scale without well-thought-out strategies.

Having completed an incredible ten-year longitudinal study on why more than 50% of business leaders fail in the first 18 months, Ron knows the answers first-hand. Without a clear strategy that shows who you are and what you do, Ron explains how hard it is to differentiate from the competition.

Imploring companies to create a stable structure from within, Ron warns about the dangers of false egalitarianism within a company culture. Ron throws light on how successful enterprises create leaders from below to foster innovation and resourcefulness at all levels of a company.

Drawing on his 35 years of experience, Ron’s book Rising to Power, looks at how and why certain leaders thrive, while others crash and burn. A repeat TEDx speaker, Ron now makes it his mission to inject strategization into every organization he works with.

To find out more about Ron’s company, head to Navalent.

In this episode we discuss:

• Strategizing for growth versus scale — and the distinction between the two
• What happens when leaders mistake revenue for viability
• The importance of creating dynamic leaders from below