E115 | Is your ego the bottleneck in your business?

The biggest obstacle to growing your business may not be your strategy, your market or your team. It could be your own ego. In this roundtable discussion, the Evolution Partners coaching team explores how founders and CEOs can unknowingly become the bottleneck by shutting down ideas, limiting autonomy and creating cultures where people stop speaking up. 

Brad Giles is joined by leadership coaches Andres Zylberberg, Richard Peake & Sue Turk, who collectively work with business owners and executive teams across Australia to help them build stronger leaders, healthier cultures and more valuable businesses.

Together they unpack the subtle ways ego shows up in leadership, why blind spots are impossible to see alone, and how curiosity, feedback and great coaching can unlock better decisions, stronger teams and sustainable business growth. 

Takeaways  

• Your biggest business bottleneck might be the leader staring back at you.
• Great leaders stay curious, especially when their instincts tell them otherwise. 
• Your team cannot outperform the limits created by your own ego. 
• Blind spots become dangerous when leaders stop inviting honest, challenging feedback. 
• Empowered teams make faster, better decisions than founder-dependent organisations every day. 
• Ego builds businesses but unchecked ego eventually limits their future growth. 
• The best founders create problem-solvers instead of becoming every problem's solution. 
• Growth begins when leaders question themselves before questioning everyone else. 

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Made to Thrive: The practical, prescriptive guide on how to be a great CEO
Onboarded: How to bring new hires to the points where they are more effective faster. A business case for leaders on why you should commit to an effective onboarded process. 
Onboarded for Managers: Helping managers bring new hires to the point where they are more effective faster. 
Bigger isn’t Better, Better is Better: Avoiding the pressure of endless growth to build a better business (and better life) 

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