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The Four Critical Elements to Achieving Operational Excellence

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This post on How to achieve Operational Excellence is my very first foray into the world of blogging since becoming a business consultant. You will see from the blurb at the bottom that I have spent more than thirty years in business, and have now ventured into the arena of business consulting. This has come about mostly because my most recent assignment has been in a small (now not-so-small) scale-up in the renewables industry. Scale-ups are generally …

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Scale-Up Needs a Different Sort of Mentorship than Start-up!

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Leading organisations can be lonely and a coach and mentorship make a real difference. This is especially true when you are an inexperienced CEO in a small start-up or a fledgling scale-up. No surprise! What is not well understood, however, is that the type of coach or mentor that is needed shifts as you move from start-up to scale-up. One size definitely does not fit all, in this case. The typical start-up CEO is in …

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Why a Scale-Up Needs a Different Sort of Mentorship to a Start-Up! Podcast

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wayne Hartmann is an experienced coach and mentor to businesses in the world of scaling up. He is the founder of H2 Business Consulting and a lead coach and mentor in the 10xe Accelerator Program and provides critical support to the 1% of elite scaling businesses in South Africa.