You feel that you have become the ceiling of your own company.
Growth still depends too heavily on your personal involvement.
For founders, CEOs and management teams
When your business has outgrown the way it is managed.
Companies grow. Markets change. Complexity increases. But the way a company is managed does not always evolve at the same speed.
I work with founders, CEOs and management teams to identify where the organisation, its procedures and strategy setting no longer match the needs of the business, prioritise what must change, and fix it together.
Does this feel familiar?
The problems usually show up before the pattern becomes clear.
You hired managers, but too many decisions still come back to you.
They manage activity, but you still make too many of the important calls.
You make decisions, but they do not consistently turn into action across the organisation.
Somewhere between management and execution, ownership or follow-through gets lost.
The company has grown, but the way it is managed has not grown with it.
Structures, responsibilities and decision-making still reflect an earlier version of the business.
Sales, Product and Technology are pulling in different directions.
Commercial promises disrupt priorities, Product loses ownership and Technology is constantly reacting.
You know something in the organisation is not working — but the symptoms are everywhere.
Is it people? Structure? Processes? Leadership? Strategy? Or several of them at once?
These problems rarely exist in isolation.
They often appear when the business has evolved faster than parts of the organisation and management model supporting it.
The central idea
The business moves forward. The organisation has to move with it.
What worked when the company was smaller, younger or less complex may become a constraint later. The leadership model, organisation, processes and decision rights that helped create today’s success are not automatically the ones required today.
Many management problems are new to the company experiencing them — but they are not necessarily new problems.
The methodology
Business Life Cycle Management
A structured way to understand what your business requires now.
BLCM identifies the company’s actual Business Life Cycle stage, evaluates how the organisation operates against that stage’s expectations, identifies the critical gaps and helps management close them.
01Formation
02Validation
03Build
04Growth
05Scale
06Maturity & Renewal
STEP 01Actual business stage
STEP 02What this stage requires
STEP 03Current reality
STEP 04Critical gaps
STEP 05Priorities
STEP 06Execution
First, make the organisation capable of operating effectively at its current stage. Then prepare for the next.
BLCM looks across strategy, organisation, leadership, decision-making, processes, capabilities and the way functions work together.
Explore BLCMHow I work
From problem to operating change
Diagnosis creates clarity. Execution creates value.
See the full engagement modelFirst conversation
Understand what is actually happening in the business.
BLCM diagnostic & executive gap report
Identify the actual lifecycle stage, compare current reality with stage requirements, identify the critical gaps and agree the priorities.
Fix it together
Turn diagnosis into operating and organisational change. We implement the changes together.
Ongoing strategic support — where useful
The relationship may continue through strategic advisory, management reviews and leadership development where these create value.
The differentiator
Experience provides the shortcut. BLCM provides the structure.
Books and frameworks can explain how organisations should work. The harder part is recognising which problem you actually have, what is causing it, and what needs attention first.
Years of operating experience allow me to recognise familiar organisational patterns quickly. BLCM then provides a structured way to test those hypotheses, identify gaps and determine priorities.
You may already know the management theory. The difficult part is knowing which part applies to your company today.
Why Gabor
I have spent my career inside the kind of transitions I now help clients navigate.
For most of my career I was the person inside the organisation responsible for making strategy, transformation and organisational change work in practice. Today I sit on the other side of the table and help founders, CEOs and management teams navigate the same kind of transitions.
22years of senior executive experience
4countries lived and worked in
3business contexts: corporate, SME, start-up
International executive experience with responsibility for large, multi-country organisations across EMEA and Global environments. Led cross-country transformation and restructuring in C-level roles close to commercial and operating reality — in businesses ranging from start-ups to major corporations.
Arthur Andersen · GE Money · GE Healthcare · GE Lighting / Tungsram · SMEs & Start-ups
About GaborAn illustrative situation
What this can look like in practice
Symptoms
- Sales makes customer commitments.
- Priorities repeatedly change.
- Sales bypasses Product Management.
- Sales requests go directly to Technology.
- Engineers become frustrated.
- Product Management loses authority.
- Delivery becomes increasingly reactive.
Apparent problem
“The Sales, Product and Technology triangle communication is broken.”
BLCM perspective
What looks like a communication problem may actually be a combination of product governance, decision rights and organisational maturity issues.
The intended result
Build the management system the business actually needs.
- Clearer ownership
- Decisions made at the right level
- Less founder / CEO dependency
- Stronger management accountability
- Better cross-functional cooperation
- Clearer strategic priorities
- More reliable execution
- Leadership capacity appropriate for the company’s stage
Let’s talk about what is really happening in your business.
Tell me the problem as you see it.