Bruce Buchanan
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Oct
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And the primary reason that typically is is a management team
or the capability within the leadership ranks more broadly is not able to keep pace with the growth of the business.
And that's that that requires you to sort of almost be able to see around corner.
So you almost have to be able to say, look, I can I know where I am today and I know this person's capable of running this team as it sits today, but also know in six months and twelve months uh this business needs to be doing something different.
And recruiting people and training people and bringing people into a business takes a long time.
So if you're not thinking about that ahead of the curve, you can hit these big road bumps where you actually the business just stops growing for quite a considerable amount of time.
I think yeah, there's two aspects of that.
One of which is you definitely want to invest in people so they can get the most out of that.
The other thing you want to do is have very transparent open conversations with those people because
There's one path that I see entrepreneurs do, which is they just move people out of the business.
Or they get to a point where they can't have the conversation with the individual and then they get to a breaking point and they say, This is not working, sorry, I need to bring someone in.
The actual right way to do it is to have a collaborative discussion with the individual and say, look, when we get to a certain point, this business is gonna need uh, you know, someone capable of running an engineering team of fifty or a hundred.
And we think you have a fantastic role in this business and we want to keep you engaged, building capability and building talent in the business.
And if that conversation goes well, that person will stay in the business, help you recruit the next person.
That organizational knowledge won't be lost.
If that conversation doesn't go well or you don't have that conversation, that person's gone.
And you lose all that organizational knowledge.
And that's a hard thing for most people to do because they tend
To be these conversations they find very uncomfortable.
They treat it like a boyfriend, girlfriend, or couple type situation.
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