Accelerating Company Growth: Fault Lines, Step Functions & Lessons Learned, with Paul Pagel

WHY THIS TOPIC:

Every company experiences growing pains and every company must make incremental improvements to deal with them. As a leader, what if you could pre-empt those pains and be less reactive with incremental change simply because you looked at your company in a different way? At this session, you’ll hear a seasoned CEO’s experiences and lessons on how he changed his mindset about growing pains so that the company stayed one step ahead of them.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

• How to identify “fault lines,” the tensions that exist inside any growing firm that can shake and grow into big problems if not managed well
• How to prioritize “step functions,” the places where incremental changes/improvements are suddenly working against you
• The need to rethink how to build systems that work for the next 10 or 100 employees or customers

YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS IF YOU ARE:

• A leader of a growing company
• A manager of a growing department or business unit
• Planning for steady or rapid growth
• Simply interested in building your business savvy

Paul Pagel is co-CEO of 8th Light, an employee-owned company that crafts software – from mobile to microservices – that is beautiful, durable, and shows pride in workmanship. He’s passionate about increasing the quality of software in the world by training developers and designers to be more skilled, providing great places to work, and supporting them to make the code that runs the world better.