The 9 Leadership Styles

 

The "best way" to be an impactful leader?

Knowing when to adapt your style.

What works in one moment can backfire in the next.

The skill is reading what the moment needs and shifting your approach to match.

I've had to relearn that more than once while building Studio Grow.

Some days call for me to make the final decision. Others call for bringing the whole team in.

Knowing when you need to adapt can help you handle key situations:

Visionary
Reed Hastings moved Netflix from DVDs to streaming while the industry doubted it.
↳ When to use: The path ahead is unclear or you're starting a new chapter.

Democratic
Satya Nadella rebuilt Microsoft's culture through collaboration and shared decision-making.
↳ When to use: You need buy-in or a wider range of thinking.

Servant
Mary Barra put safety and transparency first at GM after the ignition switch crisis.
↳ When to use: Trust needs rebuilding or burnout is creeping in.

Coaching
Eric Yuan has focused on developing leaders at Zoom who can grow beyond him.
↳ When to use: You're building the next layer of leaders.

Transformational
Indra Nooyi pushed PepsiCo's portfolio toward healthier products despite pushback.
↳ When to use: Growth has stalled or the business needs a bold shift.

Delegative
Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway by trusting CEOs to run their companies with little interference.
↳ When to use: You have strong operators or you've become the bottleneck.

Transactional
Jensen Huang drives performance at NVIDIA through clear goals and high standards.
↳ When to use: Results are slipping or deadlines are tight.

Autocratic
Steve Jobs made Apple's final product calls without committees or consensus.
↳ When to use: Time is short or someone has to make a clear call.

Situational
Andy Jassy adjusts how he leads at Amazon depending on the team and the circumstances.
↳ When to use: Your teams are at different stages or the environment keeps shifting.

Most of us have a style we fall back on.

Knowing when to step outside it is what makes you, and your business, stronger.

Save this so you have it the next time a situation calls for something different.

P.S. For more posts on leadership, follow Lise Kuecker.

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Практикум Партнерських Домовленостей. Частини 9 - 10.

 

👑 Я у нас головний, все вирішую я, з партнерами проблем не буде ❗️

До мене звернувся партнер с проблемою того, що один з його партнерів  в край ох*їв, ходить по ринку та за очі всім триндить що:

🔺 він головний в бізнесі,

🔺 партнери нічого не вирішують,

🔺 все залежить лише від нього

🔺 будь які питання що до співпраці лише до нього

🔺 як він скаже так і буде...
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Я запитав чи домовлялись вони між собою відносно того  хто і як з партнерів може себе позиціювати на ринку?

Відповідь була очікувана: Ні...

⚰️ Коли ти лежиш у труні, ти вже нічого не можеш змінити.

Ще три дні тому в тебе було все:

▪️ високий дохід

▪️ купа планів

▪️ бізнес побудований в партнерстві.

Але єдине про що ти не встиг зробити - це домовитись з партнерами

❓ скільки коштує ваш бізнес

❓скільки коштує твоя частка

❓яку суму отримає твоя родина, якщо тебе не стане.

І от зараз ти не взмозі вплинути на ситуацію, а всі питання залишаються твоїй родині, дружині.

Дружина приходить до партнерів запитати за частку яку вона планує отримати, а партнери їй кажуть:

"Тут така ситуація, ти ж успадкувала частку компанії, а у нас в компанії борги і от у нас до тебе питання, як ти будеш вносити свою частину боргу"?

Це історія із життя. Одразу після смерті партнера, бізнес перевернувся із прибуткового у збитковий і родина померлого нічого з того бізнесу не отримала.

‼️ Дуже важливою частиною щорічних домовленостей між партнерами повинна буті оцінка компанії та внутрішня декларація фінансового становища.

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Performance Transformation

 

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How to Achieve Goals Faster

 Setting goals is easy.

Achieving them is where everyone fails.

The difference comes down to 7 habits.

Here's what to stop and start doing:

1/ 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬

Stop: "I want to get in shape."
Start: "I will run 3x per week at 7am for 30 minutes."

Vague goals give you vague results.
Make them specific, measurable, and time bound.

2/ 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬

Stop: Chasing goals with no scoreboard.
Start: Using OKRs to track progress.

Set one clear objective.
Add 3 key results you can measure.
Review them weekly.

3/ 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦

Stop: Waiting for a big burst of energy.
Start: Doing one small action daily.

Block 2 hours for deep work.
Use a habit tracker.
Show up on the bad days too.

4/ 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠

Stop: Treating everything as urgent.
Start: Sorting by impact.

Urgent and important? Do it first.
Important but not urgent? Schedule it.
Not important? Delegate or delete it.

5/ 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬

Stop: Quitting after one bad week.
Start: Reflecting and adjusting.

Missed a workout? Plan a makeup day.
Fell behind? Find what went wrong.
Adjust the plan, not the goal.

6/ 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤

Stop: Working in isolation.
Start: Asking people you trust.

Role play with a colleague.
Record yourself presenting.
Find your blind spots early.

7/ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬

Stop: Setting and forgetting.
Start: Weekly reviews.

What worked this week?
What didn't?
What will I change next week?

Goals don't fail because of bad luck.

They fail because of bad systems.

Fix the system and the results follow.

Save this for your next goal review.

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The framework to scale from £2.6 M to £4.7 M in less than 18 months

 

I've worked across 25 different industries.

The fastest ones always slowed down first.

Not slow in a lazy way. Slow in a deliberate way.

Most business owners believe speed is the answer.

➡️ More staff.
➡️ More clients.
➡️ More activity.

What I found, every time, was the opposite.

When the pandemic hit, the business was on the brink of
collapse overnight.

I did not speed our way back.

I made sure we had enough cash runway for 90 days.

Then I rebuilt everything from the ground up.

That is when the STS framework was born.

⚙️ Systems.
🤝 Team.
🧭 Strategy.

Eighteen months later, the business was generating
£4.7M in annual sales.

Four years later, £17.9M in total sales.

All while one founder stepped away from the business
for nearly two years.

That is what happens when you build before you grow.

Every business I have worked with since, across 25
different industries, start in the same place.

➡️ Your systems.
↳ The business stops running through you.
↳ Your team knows how decisions get made,
without asking you first.

➡️ Your team.
↳ The people around you stop waiting for permission.
↳ They solve problems. They execute.

➡️ Your strategy.
↳ You step out of daily operations.
↳ You lead the business rather than run it.

All it takes is a few hours of dedicated time each week.

For as little as 90 days.

In my experience, that is enough time to set a business
on track to free the owner from daily operations.

It is not a quick fix. But it does not need years either.

I want to show you how you can use this system in your
business.

Every Tuesday, I send one email with one system to help
you build a business that runs without you.

It is called the Self-Scaling Memo.

You think scaling your business is complicated? 
You are right. But not for the reason you think.

In 2020, the business was on the brink of collapse.

My first instinct was to add more.

More people. More activity. More effort.

Instead, I stripped everything back.

Here is exactly how I transformed it from
£2.6M to £4.7M in less than 18 months.

✅ Offers
↳ Problem: We had 10 services you could buy.
↳ It confused the sales team. Delivery was inconsistent.

↳ Solution: We cut to 3. 2 entry offers. 1 advanced offer.
↳ That is all we sold for 4 years straight.

✅ Acquisition
↳ Problem: Multiple channels and too many ways in.
↳ The team had no focus and no clear process to follow.

↳ Solution: We simplified it to 2, leaning into our free
introduction webinar.
↳ At peak, over 1,200 potential clients joined a
single online session.

✅ Onboarding
↳ Problem: Every client was onboarded individually.
↳ It was slow, inconsistent, and impossible to scale.

↳ Solution: We moved to weekly bulk onboarding sessions.
↳ That one shift took us from 100's of clients to over
7,000 in four years.

✅ Payments
↳ Problem: Custom payment plans to drive sales.
↳ It slowed decisions, delayed cash collection, and
added unnecessary complexity.

↳ Solution: 3 fixed options. Upfront, 2 payments, 3 payments.
↳ Faster decisions. Faster cash. Faster scale.

When you remove the variation, you can build systems
around what remains.

When the systems are in place…

You can put the right people around them and step back.

Complexity was never the strategy. Simplicity was.

If this hits home…

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