Leap of Scale
Adia SowhoBetween the struggle and success in building scale, there is a space. I write about the opportunities to take, in that space, to turn yourself, your teams and your company towards scalable growth.
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Follow the Friction
The common pattern for creating a company is innovation. Build something new. Build something better. Bring breakthrough technology to market.
But I no longer believe innovation is the right starting point.
Not because innovation doesn’t...
Borrowed Language, Broken Strategy
Vocabulary carries its worldview within.
The words a market reaches for — the ones that surface in pitch decks, in boardrooms, in the frameworks we inherit — reveal not just what that market values, but what it assumes. What it takes for g...
If Delay Pays, Delay Persists
Some systems look broken from the outside and function perfectly well for the people inside them.
Walk into any major port — Lagos, Mombasa, Jakarta — and ask why cargo takes three weeks to clear when the paperwork suggests three days. The...
Where Trust Goes When Institutions Fail
When a business enters a market and finds that people aren’t adopting the product the way they expected, the first diagnosis is usually demand.
“The market isn’t ready.”
“The customer isn’t educated enough.”
“The infrastructure isn’t the...
Emerging vs. Emergent
We use the word emerging as if it’s neutral.
It isn’t.
Emerging implies movement toward something — a destination, a norm, a finished state. When we call a market emerging, we are quietly saying: it is on its way to becoming something els...
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