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Once upon a time, "growth" meant something about earning customers, retaining loyalty, and building a brand and reputation. Today, largely due to the private equity-powered "hacks" of Silicon Valley, founders and leaders are incentivized to bypass all the relationship-building and human stuff to "scale" quickly. But are growth and scale the same thing? And is the conflation of the two actually working to help middle market leaders build the firms they imagine?

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The promise of the surveillance web to businesses was not only that you could attract a near endless supply of leads at the click of a button, but that the rich analytics available would make nearly all activities measurable, ensuring not a nickel of marketing budget was wasted. Well, it's been a decade of searching under every KPI rock - is it working? Or is there something broken about the guru's obsession with measurement?

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From YouTube stars to LinkedIn influencers, the religion of hustle culture has defined a generation of workers. As Millennials move into middle management and Gen Zers attempt to reshape the economy in their image are the promises of cold plunges, efficiency hacks, and "grinding" falling short? And how does all this work in the business of advice? Of creativity? Of knowledge?

Brad and Nick address all this and more as we ask the question: Hustle Culture: Is it working or is it broken?

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