Scaling up
Is the strategy still working, and can the organisation keep up?
Growth breaks what got you here. Change how you lead, build the operating system, keep the innovation alive.
Built from Ch 10, Ch 11, Ch 12 of the handbook, updated by the 2026 research (S11, S03).
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The growth gate
The three questions the handbook says you must re-ask once revenue is growing, plus the one it treats as the quiet killer: can the back office keep up?
quizWhich leadership mode are you in?
Roberts' four approaches: managing content, behaviours, results, context. Where the company is, how your week actually goes, and what you run on.
referenceFounder mode versus stepping back
A live disagreement about how deep a founder should go. Paul Graham's 2024 essay against the handbook's delegate-and-step-back model, with what supports and what argues against each claim.
quizAre you SI-native, SI-enabled or SI-decorated?
The remove test and the model-swap test, plus the question that actually separates the two: how many workflows have been redesigned rather than merely assisted.
calculatorSpan and layer designer
How many people each manager carries today, how many layers your target span implies, and how many managers you would actually need to run it.
Stuck on something specific?
Ask the adviser. It answers only from the handbook and the 2026 research, tells you which source each answer came from, and says so plainly when the research does not cover your question.