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As a business grows, the quality of the leadership team becomes increasingly important. In the early stages, a strong founder or Managing Director can compensate for weaknesses elsewhere. They can make most of the important decisions, stay close to customers, solve problems personally and keep everyone moving. But that model becomes increasingly difficult as the business gets bigger. More people create more communication. More customers create more complexity. Decisions becom

August is a good time to step back, test your direction and adjust the route before the final part of the year. For many businesses, August brings a slightly different pace. Customers are away. Colleagues take holidays. Meetings reduce. Some of the usual day-to-day noise disappears. For business leaders, that can create something that is often in short supply during the rest of the year: space to think. It is tempting to use that extra space to catch up on emails, clear the t