Best Places to Lead · Growth
How do I grow without breaking the company?
I host Best Places to Lead, and as the operator I took one company from $5.9MM to $15MM in 18 months and another from $7MM to $30MM in three years, so I know growth breaks whatever isn’t built to hold it. These episodes cover sales, marketing, scaling an idea, transitions, and the founder stories behind Inc. 5000 companies.
The episodes
- Ep 6. The 2 Most Powerful Frameworks from the Ultimate Sales Machine with Amanda Holmes
- Ep 7. Leverage Your Content to Amplify Your Business with Alex Sanfilippo
- Ep 9. The Marketing Strategy I Most Recommend with Pablo Gonzalez
- Ep 10. How This CEO Got Out of his Own Way and Increased Sales 148%
- Ep 23. How To Authentically Be Your Brand with Erik Cabral
- Ep 26. Between Business and Podcasting: Lessons Learned From Doing Both and more with Pablo Gonzalez
- Ep 36. How to Upgrade Your Transactional Deals into Long-term Clientele with Sebastian Schieke
- Ep 49. How to Scale an Idea into a Business with William Harris
- Ep 53. Vision, Communication, and Resiliency: The Story of a CEO’s 10 Million Dollar Breakthrough with Matt Kleinrock
- Ep 55. Seeking a Buyout or Seeking Fulfillment: How This Founder Decided with Dave Molenda
- Ep 58. From Idea to Entrepreneur: What This Founder Learned Starting Multiple Businesses
- Ep 59. Turning Competitors into Customers: Dave Walens’ Journey From Trade Shows to the Digital Frontier
- Ep 60. Navigating Business Growth: Kara Brown’s Rise to Running an Inc 5000 Company
- Ep 61. Transformational Over Transactional: Thomas Brainsky on Creating Lasting Value through Relationships
- Ep 62. Revamp, Reinvent, Rise: Navigating Business Transitions with Nellie Akalp
- Ep 63. From Startup to Scale-up: A CEO’s Transformation Journey with Tyler Horsley
Questions
What does this theme cover?
Sales and marketing strategy, scaling an idea into a business, long-term client relationships, business transitions, and founder journeys from startup to scale-up. The question under every episode is how to grow without losing what made the company work.
Which episode should I start with?
Start with Ep 63, From Startup to Scale-up: A CEO’s Transformation Journey with Tyler Horsley, because it’s a CEO’s full transformation journey from startup to scale-up, which is the whole growth problem in one conversation.
How do I listen?
Every episode is at bestplacestolead.com and on YouTube; the show’s hub on this site is /podcast/.
Every episode of the show, across all themes, is on the Best Places to Lead hub. If you want the framework I teach on this question, it’s Scale Through Scripting on ProvenChaos.