Scaling 10x without Going Crazy

This article was originally published here by the C12 Group

Lilian Radke – a Brazilian immigrant took over a small commercial cleaning company in Boston and grew it 10X in to over 160 employees, reduced turnover from 85% to less than 14% all while being a young mom of little kids doing a business she was told was a “mans world” and winning small business of the year in Massachusetts for 2018 and woman owned enterprise of the year for new England in 2018 *here’s a short clip of a conference talk where she discusses scaling without going crazy

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Scaling 10x without Going Crazy

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Women Entrepreneurs, Work / Life BalanceFaith Driven TeamSeptember 7, 2020C12Comment

Scaling 10x without Going Crazy

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