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Why growing businesses become harder to run.

Liam Corcoran writes about the problems involved in building and running established B2B businesses: growth, leadership, commercial performance, decision-making, organisational capability and execution.

01Start here
The thinking

Every business is built twice.

First commercially, then organisationally. The thinking behind ClarityOS: the first build creates the business, and the second determines how far it can go.

Read the Manifesto → The evidence

What this looks like in practice.

Four anonymised examples, each set out as situation, constraint, what changed and outcome. Figures are as reported by the businesses concerned.

Read the results →
02Themes
Why growth makes a business harder to runDecisions that keep coming back to the CEOSenior hires that don't create capacity Leadership teams and accountabilityCommercial performanceOperating rhythmSystems and executionCapable people and capable organisations

If the business has grown but running it hasn't become easier, start with a conversation.

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Occasional pieces on what actually constrains an established B2B business.

What I see inside businesses this size: what makes them harder to run, what it costs, and what the fix looks like in practice. No pitch, and you can leave whenever you like.

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