Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience
Richard Russell
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From Corporate VP to Startup CEO — Egil Østhus on Leadership, Culture, and Letting Go of Ego
This week, I’m joined by Egil Østhus — co-founder and CEO of Unleash, an open-source feature management platform used by teams at Wayfair, T-Mobile, Allianz, and more.Before launching Unleash, Egil…
The Culture Shift After Series A
What do you do when you’re suddenly in charge… and totally unprepared?In this episode, I speak with Gillian Davis, leadership strategist and founder of Overtime Leader, who’s spent the last decade…
S2E03: Lidia Oshlyansky on Managing Without Artifacts, Creative Chaos, and When to Walk Away
What happens when you go from designing or building things yourself… to leading a team of 100+? And what if your career didn’t follow the standard product ladder to get there?In this candid and funny…
S2E02: From Google to Leading Change
We often think great leadership is about having all the answers and staying composed under pressure. But what if the real key to leading a high-performing team is being open about your mistakes?In…
S2E01: Scaling Fast, Cross-Functional Leadership & Surviving Near-Failure – Interview with Maya Moufarek
From Google to high-growth scaleups to the boardroom, Maya Moufarek has spent 20+ years helping founders scale their businesses. As the founding CMO of Pharmacy2U, she helped grow the UK’s largest…
EP 28 Interview with Cliff Hazell
Being a scaleup leader can feel like herding cats.- You’re growing, that’s great.- But your growth brings problems.- You have more people but they get less done.- Autonomy used to work, now there is…
EP 27 - Interview with Christian Meinerding, CEO & Co-founder at HiveMQ
Christian Meinerding is the Co-Founder and CEO of HiveMQ, a company he founded 11 years ago. He told me about his experience growing a business from scratch, raising a €40 million series A for a…
Ep 26 - Interview with Marc Sniukas, Strategy Advisor
This week I'm joined by Marc Sniukas. Marc is a strategy advisor and he helps CEOs and leadership teams design and execute better strategy.We discuss why strategy can become a big complex monster and…
Ep 25 - Agenda-Driven Meetings
Team meetings feeling lacklustre and unproductive? Do they often turn into lengthy sessions of updates that leave everyone feeling bored and frustrated?The problem is most likely that you're using a…
EP 24 - Interview with Zoltan Vardy- Founder of The Launch Code™
Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor who helps B2B tech founders struggling with sales to sell and market to enterprise clients. We had a great discussion about: Not adapting for every client to actually…
EP 23 - My Top Ten Tips for Great OKR Implementation.
Many of my clients have had a bad experience of OKRs before working with me. And I noticed that the reasons they had been failing were the same.So I dug out all my past client notes, went through…
Ep 22 - The Strawman Document
What remote working teams lack is remote collaboration - a place where people informally put forward ideas, get input, rework them, agree, disagree and come to an agreement!To create this, we need a…
EP 21 - The One Page Plan for Better OKR Execution.
Unless you plan HOW you’re going to execute on your OKRs after you’ve set them, you probably won’t achieve them.But this is where I see a lot of my clients stumbling and making one of these mistakes:…
EP 20 - Why You Don't Want Individual OKRs
It seems logical. You've got company level OKRs and team OKRs, so it would make sense to have individual OKRs, right?Wrong. Because... They undermine the benefit of cross-functional alignment you get…
EP 19 - Does your strategy have a narrative like a Greek hero story?
Too often a business strategy consists only of 6 or 7 strategic pillars. So when it comes to writing OKRs, people have difficulty. Why? Because pillars don't tell you what to do next. They don't help…
EP 18 - Interview with Nick Burne, Founder and CEO of GivePanel
Nick Burne is on a mission to help nonprofits large and small grow their fundraising on social platforms with his company, GivePanel.Nick started GivePanel in 2019 with one employee. Fast forward to…
Ep 17 - Interview with Nikos Kryvossidis - a former Director at Google.
Nikos Kryvossidis is the best manager I never had (he was my boss’s boss at Google, so not technically my manager)He had a knack for inspiring great loyalty among his team…protecting them from…
EP16 Why and how should scaleups implement OKRs? Interview with -- Me!
Join me and Michal Bohanes on this episode as we go back to basics with OKRs.We’ll be covering✅ exactly what OKRs are✅ why you should use them to track your goals✅ how they fit in with your company…
Ep 15 The What Why and How of OKRs
Join me to learn what OKRs are, why use them, how to use them and how to get started. We'll go through the basics of OKRs and break some of the most common misconceptions that hold people back.At the…
Ep 14 The Stalemate Buster
Ever been in a situation where your team is in conflict with another team, perhaps over shared resources, and you can't resolve it?Here's how to make progress using a simple document and meeting…
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