Coaching practices for Scaling Up Harnish

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Everything I come up with sits in this safe middle
• I keep assuming the fix for being stretched is to hire more people, but every time we grow we somehow move slower and spend the day just keeping each other in the loop
• The tiny version is working and a few days in it feels so easy that I get impatient and crank it way up
• I make a lot more than I used to and somehow feel exactly as stretched
• My tiny habit is finally rock solid, so my instinct is to crank up the targets on a schedule

Practices that may help

1. The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
   Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits (updated in Scaling Up) distill John D. Rockefeller’s management practices into a system of priorities, data, and meeting rhythms that keep growing companies focused and coordinated. The framework is practitioner-developed and widely used in scale-up companies; the evidence base is primarily case-study and clinical rather than controlled trial.
2. Modify and Magnify
   Ask: what happens if you make an element bigger, smaller, faster, slower, stronger, or weaker?
   SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
3. Protect the advantages of small — resist headcount as a measure of success
   Adding people to a team adds communication overhead faster than it adds output — protect the productivity of small.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
4. Scale up only after the habit is automatic
   Grow the habit gradually, and only once the micro version runs without effort.
   Micro Habits: Start Absurdly Small
5. Catch and stop lifestyle creep
   Spending silently rises to swallow every raise unless you intercept it on purpose.
   The Enough Mindset, Made Practical
6. Let the habit grow on its own
   Once the tiny habit is automatic, let it expand naturally instead of forcing more.
   Tiny Habits, Made Practical
7. Eating from smaller dishes
   Use smaller plates and bowls so a full serving is a moderate amount.
   Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical
8. Translate scale into numbers before you respond
   Before reacting to any quantity-based problem, convert the scale into a concrete number you can compare.
   Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
9. Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical
   Hara hachi bu is the Okinawan practice of eating until you are about 80% full rather than stuffed — a cultural rule of mindful moderation, not a clinical protocol. The evidence is observational and cultural: it is one habit associated with longevity in the Okinawan "Blue Zone", which makes it suggestive rather than proven cause and effect.
10. Strengthen corrective loops and weaken runaway ones
    Find the balancing loop that should be correcting the problem — and ask why it is too weak.
    Leverage Points

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