We’ve entered a tumultuous period in the markets, one that has been many years in the making. For a long time, capital was free. Now it is expensive. This is a big deal because most business plans did not expect it. So leaders now find themselves in what Sequoia Capital calls a “crucible moment”. One […]
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Context is key
When we work with clients to unlock growth and create value by increasing maturity, we begin with an understanding of the organization’s business context. Organizations within the same business context tend to suffer from the same problems. When identifying and addressing gaps in maturity, understanding the business context is key to success. In his bestselling […]
We all tend to form relationships at the level of our emotional immaturity. Sometimes individuals regress in their maturity or fail to mature. When this happens, they risk undermining their most important relationships. Organizations can suffer from the same problem. Organizations drive away their best people when the organization regresses or fails to mature. Relationships […]
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Maturity is hard
Maturity is hard to describe and even harder to measure. We tend to imagine we can know it when we see it, but this approach is unreliable. Popular psychology is awash in “quotients” that attempt to describe many dimensions of maturity: Intelligence, Emotional, Social, Cultural, dealing with Adversity, etc. Each individual follows a unique path […]
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Growth is not maturity
Growth and maturity are related concepts that differ in important ways. These differences are worth exploring as we seek to understand and mitigate the reasons why organizations that are trying to grow become stuck. We conflate growth and maturity because they are correlated. We measure growth more easily than maturity. So our brains have developed […]
I’m excited to launch Interval Advisors, a new consulting practice based on a paradigm for growth and maturity that I’ve developed as an entrepreneur, investor, executive, and endurance athlete. I’ve spent my career creating and executing growth strategies. Leaders love growth, sometimes to the point of obsession. We measure growth in terms of customers, transactions, […]