Stop Being the Tin Man — Build an Octopus Organization, with Jana Werner
Most organizations are still built like machines — standardized, siloed, controlled from the top. Jana Werner calls them Tin Man organizatio...
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Scaling Up Business Podcast
Scaling Up Business is all about how a few companies make it...and why the rest don’t. Our podcast shows are drawn from the lessons of our coaching clients, coaching partners, and the leadin...
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The Busy Is Broken Manifesto
This is the finale of the Busy Is Broken solo series — and the book is out today. No cautionary tales. No data. Just the declaration at the...
360 Days a Year: Michel Kripalani's Redesign
Michel Kripalani worked 360 days a year for over two decades building video game and app companies. Then his father got sick and the surgery...
Amplify or Erode: The Daily AI Choice with Johan Roos
Johan Roos co-invented LEGO Serious Play — the method that has leaders think with their hands instead of their mouths, because the medium yo...
The Four Sins of the Overworked CEO
After twenty years of coaching CEOs, Bill sees the same four patterns in nearly every leader who's stuck. They're not moral failures. They'r...
The Most Collaborative Teams Aren't the Best, with Ron Friedman
Ron Friedman surveyed 6,000 teams expecting collaboration to be the secret — and found the most collaborative teams aren't the best. The ave...
Twice Up the Mountain: Tony Hartl's Second Climb
Tony Hartl built a chain of tanning salons to 17 locations and 160 employees, sold it in a recession for tens of millions — and then took te...
Your Most Important Number with Lee Benson
Lee Benson's boss told him to shut the company down. Instead, he took on six hundred thousand dollars in debt and two employees he couldn't...
Is AI Making You Busier — or More Effective?
AI was supposed to give us our time back. For a lot of leaders, it's done the opposite — one more inbox, one more tool, one more thing to ke...
Happier Aging at Scale with Arif Abdulla
Arif Abdulla joined Nurse Next Door at twenty-three years old, fresh out of university, drawn by the demographics and financial potential of...
The Italy Test: Could You Leave Your Business for a Month? (Book Solo #9)
In the summer of 2009, Bill and his wife made good on a promise they'd made before kids and before the business got serious: they'd take the...
Win-Win Selling with Doug C. Brown
What happens when you start selling at six years old — not lemonade, but industrial machinery parts? Doug C. Brown figured out the math of l...
The Five Engines Keeping You Stuck
If the data on overwork is this loud, why do otherwise rational leaders keep flooring it? Episode eight of the Busy Is Broken series names w...
The Only Tailwind Is AI — Inside the CEO Business Barometer, with Paul Witkay
CEOs are calmer about the world — and twice as worried about their own companies. Paul Witkay has been sitting in confidential rooms with ch...
What Your Team Won't Tell You
Every CEO story gets told from the leader’s chair. Episode seven of the Busy Is Broken series flips the camera. Bill walks through four comp...
Stop Dumping and Start Delengaging — A New Framework for Delegation, with Tess Fyalka
Every company promotes its best people into leadership, then sets them adrift with zero tools to actually lead. Tess Fyalka has spent 25 yea...
I Made All the Big Events. That's About It.
This is the most personal episode in the Busy Is Broken series. Bill made all the big events — the graduations, the performances, the big ga...
From IPO to Bankruptcy and Back: Scaling Across Full Lifecycles with Mike Krupit
What does it take to go from startup all the way to exit, multiple times, across different sectors? Mike Krupit has done it. He's been part...
The Eighth-Grade Reflex
There's a healthcare CEO Bill coached — smart, driven, impeccable résumé — who ran a national company the same way they ran eighth-grade gro...
Suneet Agarwal
Suneet Agarwal joins Bill Gallagher on the Scaling Up Business podcast. Tune in to hear Suneet share insights on growth, leadership, and bui...