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How Do CEOs Navigate Culture While Scaling?
Navigating Culture While Scaling: Insights from Alex Simmons, CEO of Inerva Scaling a business is an exhilarating journey filled with opportunities, challenges, and pivotal decisions. One of the most critical aspects often overlooked during rapid growth is the company’s culture.

What Does “Scale” Really Mean in Business?
What Does “Scale” Really Mean in Business? In business, the term “scale” is frequently used — often as an ambitious aspiration rather than a well-defined objective. But what does it truly mean to scale a business? Does it imply

Purposeful Solitude
Purposeful Solitude. What a great concept. What does “Purposeful Solitude” mean to me? Hmm, I suppose it is an intentional practice of being. Being with self, sitting with my thoughts no matter how comfortable or uncomfortable they may be. Allowing

Reflection: The overlooked & underrated tool for growth
Self-reflection is a process that is often avoided for fear of having to ‘dwell’ on unfavourable or unbecoming situations in the past. However, I have come to understand that act of reflection is an overlooked and underrated tool for both

Creating Certainty in an Uncertain World
Increasingly, coaching conversations with our clients turn to introspection on ‘what can I do about the issues we encounter in the workplace?’ As business coaches working in many different businesses and organisational structures, we pick up trends and flows on

An Aha Moment on Winning
Over the last month or so I have been listening to and discussing what the hidden depth of high performance is and what part winning plays in that. A part of me rejects the desire to grade performance and yet