The UnNoticed Entrepreneur - Scaling Up Naturally: Verne Harnish on Geoversity, Leadership, and the Future of Business.

Scaling Up Naturally: Verne Harnish on Geoversity, Leadership, and the Future of Business.

11/28/24 • 46 min

Verne Harnish, founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and author of Scaling Up and Start to Scale needs little introduction.
Verne shares his inspiring journey from teaching entrepreneurial strategies to fostering biodiversity and sustainability through Geoversity, "Nature's University" in Panama.
Learn how leadership lessons from ant colonies and beehives are shaping modern businesses and why regenerative systems are critical for the future of our planet.

Key insights include:

The five principles of scaling from nature’s ecosystems.
How Geoversity is replanting Panamanian jungles and inspiring global leaders.
The innovative approaches of Holganix in transforming agriculture with natural probiotics.
Why businesses must embrace collective intelligence and distributed leadership.
Practical strategies for building resilient and regenerative organizations.

Discover why Verne believes entrepreneurs must transition from being dictators to facilitators and how harnessing the power of the hive mind is the way forward.

Resources Mentioned:

Geoversity: geoversity.org
Holganix: holganix.com
Verne’s books: Scaling Up, Start to Scale

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Key insights include:

The five principles of scaling from nature’s ecosystems.
How Geoversity is replanting Panamanian jungles and inspiring global leaders.
The innovative approaches of Holganix in transforming agriculture with natural probiotics.
Why businesses must embrace collective intelligence and distributed leadership.
Practical strategies for building resilient and regenerative organizations.

Discover why Verne believes entrepreneurs must transition from being dictators to facilitators and how harnessing the power of the hive mind is the way forward.

Resources Mentioned:

Geoversity: geoversity.org
Holganix: holganix.com
Verne’s books: Scaling Up, Start to Scale

Recommended: Book - Teeming by Tamsin Woolley-Barker Podcast - Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson

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The UnNoticed Entrepreneur - Scaling Up Naturally: Verne Harnish on Geoversity, Leadership, and the Future of Business.

Transcript

Verne HARNISH (21:35)
They don't have to rely on any experts. They can trust their neighbor and they can see it with their own eyes. The length, the depth of the roots and the quality of the produce and the yields. I mean, you know, in one season and that's why it's been able to grow exponentially. The other thing that they do number two is they nurture kind of the hive creativity. So it's interesting, Harley Davidson,
a while back, got rid of their major ad agency and they chose a small