From Pilot to POWERHOUSE

Uncertainty is a double-edged sword. Business builder and CXO Allan Hale teaches businesses to unleash their might for sustainable change.

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With change comes uncertainty. Regardless of the cause, whether triggered by geopolitical turmoil, public health crises, environmental disasters, or a host of other provocations, all businesses face a common challenge: to grow and thrive. And when it comes to surviving the collision of volatility and ambiguity, company size matters. Large companies often fall prey to analysis paralysis, while startups can lack the discipline to scale.

“By maintaining a lean, agile methodology, recruiting the right team at the right time, choosing the right early customers, and fostering transparency and candor, you can nurture that small tree until it becomes a formidable part of the enterprise.”

“To recognize that doing things differently — temporarily — can be vital for launching new ventures inside large organizations. As one mentor said, ‘It’s hard to grow a small tree under a big tree,’ implying that corporate structures can stifle fledgling initiatives,” said business growth expert Allan Hale. “You need to carve out enough separation for them to blossom initially, while planning to integrate them back into the broader enterprise when they’ve matured.”

“As one mentor said, 'It's hard to grow a small tree under a big tree,' implying that corporate structures can stifle fledgling initiatives.”

Hale’s role as an “ambiguity expert” is to provide systematic approaches that guide ideas from promising concepts to healthy, scalable operations by leveraging the organization’s existing strengths in ways that create entirely new revenue streams or services. “By maintaining a lean, agile methodology, recruiting the right team at the right time, choosing the right early customers, and fostering transparency and candor, you can nurture that small tree until it becomes a formidable part of the enterprise.”