Every January, we confuse ambition with progress. Most resolutions fail not because we lack discipline, but because heroic effort doesn’t scale. Sustainable change works the same way great businesses do: clear long-term direction, fewer priorities, and disciplined routines that compound over time. High performers don’t rely on motivation. They design rhythms that protect energy, sharpen judgement and make progress inevitable.

Using AI as a thought partner can sharpen how leaders reflect, prioritise and plan. This guide shows how to use structured prompts to clarify long-term direction, choose one life area and key relationship to focus on, and translate insight into simple, sustainable routines. Designed for busy founders and CEOs, the prompts turn thinking into action without over-engineering or overthinking the process.

Scaling is harder than starting. That may sound strange if you’ve already battled through the chaos of building your first product, finding customers, raising funding. But the crunch comes later. Research shows 97% of new firms never make it past $5M in revenue. Only 3% keep scaling . Why? Because growth always hits a constraint.

Get your organisation "match fit" using Scaling Up Tools One of the best things about the Scaling Up are the Tools. Practical exercises...

This week I have used some downtime to review both my personal and business aspirations, outcomes and plans for this calendar year. Every...

This is the third article in a series on Getting the right people in the right seats during Scaling. See my previous articles on How to...

Continuously improve your enthusiastic re-hire rate Are all highly skilled and capable Talent valuable? Some have deep skills and incredible expertise. They get the job done. Maybe they break a few rules and make a few enemies along the way. But the results are there. They speak for themselves. But they can lead to team dysfunction, persistent problems and long-term drop in capabilities of your business. In my previous article “ How to get the right people in the right seats

Smart plays to ignite your team, scale your business and finish the year stronger. Many start a race fast out of the gates. But as the...

Just when we think we have it figured out - the world shifts again. Here's a way to stay on top of emerging opportunities and turn your...