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The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Women in Business
Welcome to The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — a podcast about leadership and business growth for women in business.
I’m Mia Poulsen, and this is where we go deeper than tactics.
Because at some point, growth is no longer about learning another strategy. It is about developing the leadership required to hold more complexity, visibility, responsibility, and scale.
Inside each episode, we explore the architecture of sustainable growth. We talk about decision-making, developmental psychology, identity shifts, and the internal structures that determine how far your business can actually expand.
This is not a podcast about trends or quick wins.
It is a space for thoughtful conversations about what it means to grow as a female leader — to increase capacity, to evolve your authority, and to build a business that reflects who you are becoming.
If you are ready to move beyond strategy and into leadership, you are in the right place.
New episodes drop every week.
The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Women in Business
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.