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Hosted by Richard Russell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Interviews with successful leaders of scaleups and big techs about the challenges they faced while scaling themselves and their businesses.The host, Richard Russell, has worked at Google and Amazon in product, technology and business leadership roles. He now works as an executive coach helping functional experts transform into strategic leaders in roles like CEO, CPO and CTO in scaleup environments.Learn more about Richard at www.richardrussell.co scaleupleaders.substack.com
Richard Russell hosts Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience, a business show with 32 episodes published.
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 led engineering at Vi
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 helping scaleups grow
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 conversation, Lidia
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 this episode, Kim Wyli
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 online pharmacy to a sc
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 misalignment. - P
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 total of €50 million rais
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 how to prevent that.
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 people-driven approa
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 help them make a cho
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 them meticulously gathe
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 fresh approach - som
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: They set OKRs and t
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 from company and te
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 you work out what th
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 2023 and he now empl
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 bureaucratic overload And
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 strategy and visio
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 end of this episode
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 format that will not onl
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