Strategy at Scale

Brought to you by Outthinker, Scaling Up, and Growth Institute In a sea of contradictory business advice, Strategy at Scale breaks through the noise to deliver practical, proven strategies to predictably scale the value of your business. Each week, we interview successful entrepreneurs and business builders across industries to extract simple, high-impact strategic concepts that work. From avoiding costly missteps to executing systematic processes that fuel growth, you’ll gain lessons from the masters to scale your enterprise more effectively.

Strategy at Scale is a business podcast hosted by Outthinker, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Outthinker hosts Strategy at Scale, a business show with 26 episodes published.

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  Why Copying Winners Fails: Dwayne J. Clark on Finding Real Business Edges

  Mar 31, 202651 minS0

  <p>Dwayne J. Clark is the founder of Áegis Living, known for building a hospitality-first approach to senior care and a culture-led operating system. In this conversation, he shares the “black box” method he used to turn rejected ideas into real differentiation—and how purpose, community, and people practices became his growth engine.<br/><br/>This episode is a practical playbook for leaders who want durable scale: how to hire your weaknesses, build a tribe, and codify culture into repeatable systems.<br/><br/>In this episode, you’ll learn:<br/>•Why “embracing failure” is a strategy advantage—and how to mine it for oppor...

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  From $5M To $50M EBITDA: Brett Hickey’s Scale Checklist For Operators

  Jan 27, 202648 minS0

  <p>Brett Hickey is the Founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, a multi-billion-dollar private investment firm focused on the U.S. lower middle market. Over more than two decades, Brett has built a specialized platform spanning private equity, private credit, and secondaries—backed by a clear philosophy: align incentives like owners, run strategy through probabilities, and build value where markets are fragmented and overlooked. He’s also made 500+ placements into private companies, giving him rare pattern recognition on what actually helps businesses scale.<br/><br/>In this conversation, Brett breaks down how to spot opportunity in big, fragmented markets, why...

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  Unconditional Power: Steven Gaffney’s 3-State Framework For High-Performing Teams

  Jan 13, 202639 minS0

  <p>Steven Gaffney is a leadership advisor and author who helps teams perform under pressure through honest communication, change management, and practical leadership tools. Having advised leaders across Fortune 500 companies as well as government and military teams, Steven has seen firsthand that strategy doesn’t fail because teams lack intelligence—it fails because they operate in the wrong “mood,” leave critical things unsaid, and confuse facts with the stories they tell themselves about those facts. His latest book, Unconditional Power, lays out a practical framework for moving teams from reaction mode to execution mode—especially when information is incomplete and the pressu...

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  How Bill George Uses Authentic Leadership: Building Companies That Outlast Markets

  Dec 9, 202555 minS0

  <p>Bill George is the former CEO and Chairman of Medtronic and a longtime professor at Harvard Business School. Starting from an early conviction that leadership had to mean more than chasing titles, he helped transform Medtronic from a 4,000-person medical device maker into a 30,000-person, purpose-driven global leader. Along the way he codified a playbook for “True North” leadership that combines clear purpose, distinctive strategy, and uncompromising values.<br/><br/>In this conversation, Bill unpacks what authentic leadership really is (and isn’t), why purpose has to precede strategy, and how leaders actually grow as their organizations scale. If you’re...

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  From Booking.com To WeRoad: How Andrea D’Amico Built A €100M Community

  Nov 25, 202543 minS0

  <p>Andrea D’Amico is the CEO of WeRoad, one of Europe’s fastest-growing travel companies, and former regional VP at Booking.com. After nearly two decades helping scale Booking.com from a 100-person startup to a 20,000-person global giant, he stepped back post-COVID to rethink what he actually wanted to build next. That reflection led him to WeRoad, now a €100M-revenue, pan-European community that has brought 300,000+ young professionals to 125+ destinations through nearly 1,000 itineraries and more than 3,000 trip coordinators.</p><p><br/></p><p>This conversation matters because Andrea bridges corporate scale and scrappy early-stage execution, showing how to design a busi...

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