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Scaling a business isn’t just about strategy—it’s about navigating chaos, making fast but sound decisions, and keeping teams aligned under pressure.
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Arbitration vs. Inertia: When a Business Dispute Stops Moving (opens the original)
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Your business partnership is stuck in a stalemate that neither side will name out loud, and Marina Akchurina explains why filing a simple document could break it open faster than another round of lawyers. Most business owners have an arbitration clause buried somewhere in their contracts and no real sense of what it actually does. International arbitration lawyer and arbitrator Marina Akchurina joins Maartje to clear up the confusion, starting with a myth that keeps people stuck: the idea that a
Your Business Is Not a Machine; It Never Was - Anu Rathninde (opens the original)
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Dr. Anu Rathninde shut down a Tesla supplier plant of 5,000 workers during COVID without corporate approval. He joins Maartje van Krieken to unpack why treating your organization like a machine instead of a living system is the real reason most corporate transformations fail. Anu spent nearly three decades in global operations leadership at Delphi, Johnson Electric, Aptiv, and Johnson Controls before earning his PhD and writing Tackling Complexity. His China story sets the tone: with headquarter
Early Symptoms: How Do You Know and How Do You Manage? (opens the original)
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60% of employees sat on a concern this year because they had nowhere safe to take it, and by the time it reached leadership, it was already an emergency. Maartje van Krieken has spent decades walking into organizations after things went wrong, and she keeps finding the same pattern. Someone always saw it first. The question is never whether the signal existed. The question is whether that person believed there was a safe place to bring it and whether anyone was listening. This episode is her ans
Rowing Through Treacle: When Friction Becomes the Culture (opens the original)
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Companies spend $140 billion a year training leaders, yet trust in leadership keeps sinking. Jimmy Burroughes has a different diagnosis: the real problem is leadership friction built into the system your managers work inside. Jimmy spent years leading in the British Army before bringing that discipline into corporate consulting, working with organizations like Bank of America, Samsung, and Walmart. Then he burned out completely and lost his job, his relationship, and his home in quick succession
Drill It On Paper: The Pre-Mortem Exercise Every Leader Should Know (opens the original)
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60% of employees swallow a concern serious enough to derail the whole plan, and Maartje van Krieken has a 60-minute exercise designed to surface it before it becomes an expensive surprise. Most business failures trace back to something someone already knew. The signal was there. Nobody moved it to the right table. Maartje calls the fix a pre-mortem, an eight-step exercise borrowed from industries where getting it wrong isn't an option, adapted for anyone about to commit to something big. What if
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