Can't Stop the Growth Replay: The Law of Explosive Growth with Chad Peterman
Dec 23, 2025
Explore the messy reality of explosive growth as Chad Peterman reveals why sometimes you should stop hiring to truly thrive. He shares lessons learned from the chaotic COVID hiring frenzy and the importance of building strong leaders over merely adding staff. Discover the vital infrastructure needed to turn employees into leaders, alongside the importance of personal discipline and cultivating a culture that celebrates achievements. Chad inspires listeners to spot potential and commit to developing future leaders, ensuring lasting impact.
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Add Vs. Multiply Leadership
- John Maxwell's distinction: to add growth, lead followers; to multiply, lead leaders.
- Multiplication vastly outperforms constant addition for scaling impact.
Rapid Hiring Broke The System
- During COVID Peterman described hiring 300 people in one year to meet demand and doing it without proper onboarding or KPIs.
- That rapid addition created broken systems they spent months rebuilding to support sustainable growth.
Interconnect Your Top Players
- Connect and interlink capable people so their development moves others like gears in a machine.
- Use empowered leaders to multiply effort and make larger initiatives possible with the same input.