Leadership & Operations

Essays by Preeti Kennedy on Leadership & Operations — 4 pieces drawn from twenty-three years of building and running businesses.

1. Most Businesses Don't Have a Marketing Problem

   It is far easier to recognise your own mistakes when you see them in other people's businesses. Most marketing problems turn out to be systems problems.

   Leadership & Operations 23 July 2026 3 min read
2. The Hiring Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

   There are certain decisions in business that stay with you long after they’ve been made.

   Leadership & Operations 23 July 2026 3 min read
3. What 20+ Years of Managing People Has Taught Me

   One of the things I find most interesting about leadership is how different it looks from the outside.

   Leadership & Operations 23 July 2026 2 min read
4. The Hidden Bottlenecks That Stop Businesses Scaling

   A few years ago, I was speaking with a founder who couldn’t understand why their business felt harder to run than it had a year earlier.

   Leadership & Operations 23 July 2026 4 min read