What is Overgrowth? When to Prune? What Season are you in?

About this episode

The episode explores the concepts of overgrowth, pruning, and seasonality in business through the lens of gardening analogies.

In this episode we explore more of the key concepts taken from 'Don't Shout at the Vegetables' - Lessons in Sustainable Leadership & Human Growth: Overgrowth - what does this mean in business? How do we control it? Pruning - we all get what this means in a garden sense but in business? Seasons - We build seasonality into our sales figures but how do we know what season we are in across our business? Charlotte and Max discuss these key concepts further to bring to life just how much truth their is in the garden to business growth analogy.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr Charlotte de Brabandt, Max Kent

Topics covered

• Overgrowth
• Pruning
• Business Growth
• Sustainable Leadership
• Seasonality

Keywords

• overgrowth
• pruning
• business growth
• sustainable leadership
• seasonality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Don't Shout at the Vegetables

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