#Strategy

Everything tagged Strategy.

9 mins read

What I Got Wrong About Scaling a Team From 10 to 500

The org chart was never the problem. The problem was that I kept promoting people into jobs that had stopped existing six months earlier.

Russell Abdullah Al Mamun
Russell Abdullah Al Mamun
28 Aug 2026
7 mins read

The Board Meeting Is Not the Point

If the board meeting is where your directors learn what is happening, you have already lost the value of having a board at all.

Rosalind Hayes
Rosalind Hayes
22 Aug 2026
10 mins read

Hiring Above Your Level Without Losing the Room

Bringing in someone more experienced than you is the highest-leverage move available to a founder, and the one most likely to be fumbled.

Russell Abdullah Al Mamun
Russell Abdullah Al Mamun
29 Jul 2026
7 mins read

Operating Cadence: The Only Ritual Worth Defending

Weekly, monthly, quarterly. Get the rhythm right and strategy executes itself. Get it wrong and no amount of talent compensates.

Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh
17 Jul 2026
13 mins read

What Twenty Years of Market Cycles Taught Me About Timing

Every downturn feels structural while you are inside it. Every recovery feels obvious afterwards. Neither feeling is useful.

Harriet Bloom
Harriet Bloom
11 Jul 2026