Horizon37 writes:
The combined Horizon37 and Cranfield University research team - with input from over 100 scale-up leaders in the innovation business ecosystem - has examined the huge impact leadership can have on success and failure during scale-up.
At points along the way, the urgency of change, and associated risk to the business, can increase fast. We have defined the moment for a scale-up where unprepared leadership can pose the greatest risk to the business as the Leadership Proliferation Threshold (LPT).
The pending risk is often neither foreseen nor properly mitigated for. The key components of the collective leadership required beyond the threshold are creating culture, setting direction, managing performance and feedback. Furthermore, leadership must proliferate beyond the Founder/CEO for the scale-up business to thrive beyond the LPT.