Growth Readiness Assessment
See which capabilities are helping—or limiting—your organization’s next stage of growth.
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The Haystack Group ↗Haystack Insights & Tools
Practical thinking for navigating growth.
Explore frameworks, tools, and perspectives designed to help leadership teams create clarity, strengthen execution, and prepare for what comes next.Explore the Library ↓Insights by Matt Heelan. Tools from The Haystack Group.
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Strategic Scaling Risk Check
Identify where strategy, market confidence, operating capacity, or execution could turn growth into strain.
Check Your Scaling Risk→From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
A 30-minute leadership tool for defining the outcome, understanding the gaps, and building a clear plan forward.
Download the Tool→Putting AI to Work in Your Business
A systems-thinking guide to finding useful AI opportunities, managing risk, and running practical experiments.
Get the AI Playbook→What Should Be Different 90 Days From Now?
A practical guide to turning growth priorities into focused execution over the next 90 days.
Get the Guide→90-Day Growth Execution Sprint
Clarify what matters most, identify what is in the way, and build the operating rhythm to move forward.
Explore the Sprint→What Should Be Different 90 Days From Now?
A practical way to move through growth complexity by deciding what genuinely needs to change next.
By Matt HeelanRead the Insight→Why Do We Scale Organizations?
Before deciding how to scale, leadership teams should become clear about why growth is worth pursuing.
By Matt HeelanRead the Insight→What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From Startups and Scientists?
Use hypotheses, evidence, experimentation, and iteration to make better growth decisions and reduce risk.
By Matt HeelanRead the Insight→Think Like an Owner
Create the trust, autonomy, accountability, systems, and incentives that allow people to take real ownership.
By Matt HeelanRead the Insight→Not sure where to begin?