Small and mid-market businesses aren’t scaled-down enterprises.
I run UKG Ready, the workforce platform for businesses of 75 to 1,500 people, and I write about the discipline of growing them — and about leadership that doesn’t bottleneck at the top.

Drawing index — the essays
- CK-03Chris, I love you, but you’re a roadblock.The line outside my office looked like proof I was doing the job well. It was proof of the opposite.August 1, 20267 min
- CK-02Culture is designed, not inheritedI walked into an acquired team expecting a people problem. I found an absence where a system should have been.August 1, 20266 min
- CK-0175 to 1,500 is its own disciplineBusinesses in this band are not scaled-down enterprises, and building for them as if they were is why most software fails them.August 1, 20267 min
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