Posts for: Insight

Why You Need to Instill a Clear Purpose in Your Teams

Teams need a clear purpose — not just to fulfill their responsibilities but also so they have a sense of...

Culture as a Catalyst for Scale

RHR International worked in collaboration with founder-CEOs to identify the main challenges they faced when scaling their companies. From that...

Creating a Gold Standard Team, the Right Way

After the 2000 Summer Olympics, rower Cath Bishop felt she was ready to retire. Having placed ninth that year in...

Is Elon Musk Coachable?

In a dinner conversation with friends, someone asked me what I would do if I were Elon Musk’s CEO coach....

Rules That Aren’t Meant to Be Broken

I think it’s fair to say that standing up and having a voice on social, political, and climate issues has...

Are CEOs Responsible for Repairing the Social Contract?

As the threads of how we operate businesses in a capitalist democracy unravel, the role of the corporation (and its...

Be More Human

Managing people through constant change and uncertainty has brought about new expectations of leaders. Now, leadership development needs to catch...

Company Rigor: The Discipline of Growth

Most founders did not grow up thinking about company operations, nor do they have the skills or the interest in...

Knowing How to Lead Starts with Knowing Yourself

Leading a business often means trying to achieve complex and sometimes contradictory objectives. Enabling a company to be financially successful...

Obsessive Product and Customer Focus: A Critical Element of Scale

Product vision and customer obsession are the essence of building disruptive companies that change the world. Early-stage founders usually double-hat...