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When to Hire Your First COO (and Why Most Founders Do It Too Late)

When to Hire Your…

Picture a founder six weeks into their company’s best quarter: revenue is up, the team is growing, but the founder feels stressed. Despite working eighty-hour weeks, they miss critical tasks. Every decision, from pricing to hiring…

The Loneliest Hire: Why Founders Struggle to Recruit People Smarter Than Themselves

The Loneliest Hire: Why…

Many growing companies have a critical leadership gap just below the founder. This role should be filled by an exceptional leader with expertise beyond the founder’s own. Too often, it remains vacant or is filled by…

How Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies Are Winning the War for Senior Talent

How Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies…

Ask the CEO of almost any high-growth African company what keeps them awake at night, and the answer is rarely capital, competition, or regulation. It is talent, specifically the senior talent that separates a company that…