22 - Scaling Exposes This Leadership Weakness Every Founder Has
Scaling doesn’t fail because of strategy, capital, or product. It fails because of a leadership weakness almost every founder carries into growth.
Impatience.
In this episode of The Breakout CEO podcast, Jeff Holman sits down with David Sluss, Professor at ESSEC Business School and advisor to scaling CEOs, to unpack how impatience quietly undermines leadership as companies grow.
David explains why the habits that help founders win early start to work against them at scale. Speed becomes pressured. Intensity becomes reactivity. And impatience erodes trust long before leaders realize it’s…
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