Smashing the Plateau

business, entrepreneurship, education, self improvement, careers · EN

Smashing the Plateau features candid conversations with experienced professionals who are building businesses around their expertise and creating greater control over their work and their lives.Many of our guests are corporate refugees who transitioned from employment to entrepreneurship, often continuing to build on the expertise and experience they developed over many years in their field. Others have spent years building independent practices and are continuing to make decisions about how they want their businesses, and their lives, to evolve.Each conversation explores the decisions that shape an independent business. Guests share what they have learned about positioning, growth, marketing, clients, focus, money, relationships, and the many other choices that come with building something of your own.But experience doesn't make every decision easier.Inside organizations, important decisions rarely happen entirely alone. Colleagues test assumptions, provide context, share experien