Audit and Implementation w/ Taja Graham | Ep. 216

About this episode

Taja Graham discusses the operational challenges faced by growing founder-led companies and how to address them.

In this episode of Biz/Dev, we talk with Taja Graham, founder of OpsIQ, about what starts to break inside a business as it grows. Taja works with founder-led companies that have traction but are beginning to feel the strain of it. Execution slows, everything runs through the founder, and adding people or tools doesn’t fix the underlying issues. We get into why growth often outpaces operations, how to identify where work is leaking across a business, and what it takes to build systems that act...

People in this episode

Guest: Taja Graham

Topics covered

• business growth
• operations
• founder-led companies
• system building
• work efficiency

Keywords

• business audit
• implementation
• growth challenges
• operations management
• efficiency systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpsIQ

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