Growth Think Tank

Updated: 04 Sep 2025 • 1179 episodes
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Develop leadership skills and understand leadership development from expert interviews with transformational leaders. Leaders in the Trenches gives raw discussions that dive deep into new strategies to accelerate your company growth and your leadership abilities. Get interviews from Fortune 100 leaders to experts in various domains of marketing, sales, and leadership that allows you to explode your growth. Learn from their failures and discover the finer elements of significance that will impact your company. Guests include Daymond John, Les Brown, Michael Gerber, Jonah Berger, Bob Berg, Greg McKeown, and with the host Gene Hammett.

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In this episode of Grow Think Tank, host Gene Hammett talks with Nate Medoff, CEO of Quatrro Business Support Services, about the challenge of scaling without losing your culture. Quatrro Business Support Services No. 4197 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list. Medoff reveals how Quattro has grown through rapid expansion and acqu

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In this episode, I uncover the real cost of being the bottleneck in your organization. I challenge CEOs to recognize how getting stuck in daily tasks prevents them from focusing on their true responsibilities—developing their teams and shaping strategic vision. By examining how they spend their time, leaders can see th

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In this episode, Veronique James, founder and CEO of The James Agency (TJA), underscores the power of a people-first culture in shaping both workplace satisfaction and agency success. The James Agency No. 3394 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list. She explains how a tenured leadership team—grounded in accountability and integrit

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In this episode, I unpack the complexities of effective leadership through the lens of the well-known phrase, “Hire Slow, Fire Fast.” While I agree with the value of thoughtful, deliberate hiring, I challenge the conventional interpretation of Fire Fast as an immediate solution for underperformance. Instead, I advocate

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In this episode, Kumar Goswami, CEO of Komprise, unpacks how organizations can turn the overwhelming surge of unstructured data into a competitive advantage. Komprise—ranked No. 2,508 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list. He explains how Komprise fuels AI with clean, reliable data while scaling systems to handle billions of file

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In this episode, I sit down with Will Scott, Founder and CEO of Search Influence, to discuss how a strong culture paired with strategic adaptation fuels sustained growth. Search Influence—ranked No. 4,154 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list—serves as a powerful example of how culture and strategy go hand in hand. Will shares hi

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