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Summer Reflection: Hobbies

What would you work on, and how would you do it, to result in a feeling of fascination and fulfilment?

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Summer Reflection: Waves

As a leader we keep our agency safer, and more stable, if we actively make sure the whole organisation is facing towards the big waves.

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Summer Reflection: Growth

Everyone assumes it's turnover or headcount, but growth can be many things.

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Some hard truths

In the last few years, agency founders have had to work incredibly hard just to keep their agencies afloat.

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The agency brain

If you can design your agency to have a collective knowledge that everyone develops, then you'll have a valuable asset.

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A fresh start

You can create a lot new energy by simply having a regular ceremony of change.

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Lion taming

How can you exude lion-taming confidence in everything your agency does?

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The founder fortnight

Review a fortnight of what you do, and act on what you learn to shape your use of time in future.

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How to be a 10x founder

If you spend time designing 'the way' for your agency to do the thing and training ten people in your team to do it from then on, your time has had a 10x impact.

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E is for Evolution

The more you can design your agency too see ahead, and evolve to be ready for the future world, the calmer and more sustainable your agency will be.

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M is for Momentum

Healthy agencies are proactively designed to have their own engine that powers everything. Instead of using the founder's energy, the business has its own drive.

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A is for Alignment

Without actively working on handling the growing complexity of connections, you'll end up with confusion, chaos and conflict.