Why your business can't scale
What if the bottleneck strangling your growth is you? The reluctant-leader trap, and why the order is always strategy, then systems, then scale — from the Founder to Founder Bootcamp.
Steve Simonson
Show notes
Most businesses are started by someone great at the craft — the developer, the chef — who never chose to become a leader. This deep dive into Steve Simonson’s Founder to Founder Bootcamp calls that the reluctant leader, and names it as the usual root cause of operational chaos.
It covers the sequence you can’t skip (strategy, then systems, then scale), why strategy is mostly deciding what you won’t do, and Yahoo as the cautionary tale of ego without strategy.
For founders doing five jobs at once. The closing question: is that recurring failure really a person’s fault, or is your system designed to produce it?