Hacking Leadership For Growth And Happiness

As Drupal businesses succeed and grow, the founders and staff face new, and harder, challenges. People who have come from technical backgrounds suddenly find themselves needing a whole new skillset; people who have been used to running a small business start to feel out of control; and loyal staff can start to feel that what they treasure is being lost.

But getting business growth right — ending up with large, successful and happy Drupal businesses — is vital to the prosperity of the community we all love.

In this session, business owners, leaders, managers - and staff who care about these issues - will gain new clarity, ideas and inspiration to help develop their businesses. We'll tackle the following issues:

• How do you structure a modern creative business for growth and success?
• How do you make the most from the talent and ideas of all of your team?
• How do you deal with not knowing everything as a leader?
• What's the best way to handle business growth safely?
• How do you decide which business opportunities to take?
• How do you become *great* rather than simply *big* ?
• How do you preserve culture as you grow?
• Why traditional business-school management 'best-practice' doesn't work in our industry.
• What to focus on.

Steve Parks is one of the leadership team at the Wunder group, a 170-person strong Drupal agency in Europe. He's also written books on starting and growing businesses.

This talk follows on from his session at Drupalcon LA: "How to Run a Drupal Agency" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZlBTdVZGc )