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The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Founders
The Blue Sofa is a podcast for founders building, scaling, and leading businesses that grow beyond them.
Hosted by Mia Poulsen, these conversations explore business architecture, sales systems, founder leadership, growth psychology, and what it really takes to build a business that can make money, support your life, and grow beyond constant founder dependence.
This is not surface-level business advice. It’s a sharper conversation about what sits underneath growth, how a business is built, how sales actually work, where growth ceilings come from, and what the next stage of business really asks of the founder.
If you’re a founder looking for stronger thinking, more honest insight, and a business that is built to grow well, welcome to The Blue Sofa.
New episodes drop every week.
The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Founders
Transformational leadership part 4: Managing vs Leading: The Revenue Plateau Explained
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In this episode, we explore the difference between transactional and transformational leadership, originally introduced by political scientist James MacGregor Burns and later expanded by psychologist Bernard Bass.
You’ll learn:
• Why transactional thinking creates effort but not necessarily expansion
• How founders unknowingly cap their own revenue
• The difference between managing numbers and developing capacity
• Why scaling requires leadership development — not more tactics
If your revenue has plateaued despite working harder, this episode will help you see whether the issue is effort… or leadership level.