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From long-form thinking to practical resources
and small things worth noticing.
Articles
Featured Series: Beyond the Founder
Practical thinking for people building businesses that can grow beyond the founder.
Drawn from real conversations. Grounded in real work.
If you're wondering why everything still comes back to you,
start with Beyond the Founder.
Tools
Hargrove & Co.
The Business
Diagnostic
Ten questions. About five minutes.
The Business Diagnostic
Something feeling off in the business? Or just curious what we'd see? Answer ten questions in about five minutes, and we'll send you our perspective on what might be going on.
Good Questions. Practical Tools.
A collection of practical exercises to help you look at how your business actually works, and where things might need to change.
The 30-Day Test
What happens when you're genuinely unavailable for 30 days?
One-Week Comeback Log
What keeps finding its way back to you?
Three Frustrations
Find the patterns behind the problems that keep coming back.
Choosing Help
Work out what kind of support your business actually needs.
Succession Readiness
What will keep working when you're no longer there?