Bansal: Devolving Power to Next-Level Leaders Is the Biggest Scale-Up Factor
Pankaj Bansal · 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 5 | Pankaj Bansal, Founder and CEO PeopleStrong · Jul 15, 2019 · at 13:25
Pankaj Bansal, founder and CEO of PeopleStrong, outlines his core management framework for scaling an enterprise company.
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“So whatever decisions I was taking, I downloaded 50% of them to my next layer. And similarly, it happens across the country, which is the biggest factor for scale-up, I believe.”
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