Busting the Myths of Fast Growth

Alignment, agility and the right skills in the top team are essential when striving to achieve fast growth. Business leaders tell Emma Carroll how organisations must adapt to the challenges presented by today’s rapidly changing market.

Featuring commentary from:

John Allbrook, Chair, Cellesce & Board Mentor, Criticaleye: If you start generating growth and putting it through your factory, but that factory is not designed to cope with it, then you're going to create issues.

Deborah Frost, CEO, Personal Group: High performance is all about the grind. It’s about having a plan, executing it, reviewing it and holding people to account.

Charles Ostroumoff, Business Development Manager, High-Growth Companies, Criticaleye: The key to delivering on growth is in ensuring alignment on the business plan at Board level.

Titus Wouda-Kuipers, Founder & Chair, Vilosophy: You have to ask whether or not you can deliver the growth within the existing organisation.

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