🎙️ Business Transformation Podcast – Episode #46

🎧 Scaling Smarter: Larry Mandelberg on Leadership, Change & the 3P Framework for Sustainable Transformation [046]

In this episode of the Business Transformation Podcast, host Heath Gascoigne sits down with veteran business consultant and author Larry Mandelberg. From Bordeaux, France, Larry shares the wisdom from over 50 years in leadership, consulting, and research into why businesses fail—and more importantly, how to prevent it. His well-researched 3P Framework (Purpose, Performance, People) and Scaling Smarter system offer a practical, battle-tested approach to organisational resilience, leadership effectiveness, and change success.

💡 What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why leadership is situational—and what separates the few who get it right.
• The corporate life cycle theory and how it predicts business challenges.
• The 3P Framework:
  • Clarity of Purpose – defining value, audience, delivery, vision, and culture.
  • Consistency of Performance – building processes that deliver predictable results.
  • Engagement of People – creating teams that care as much about the business as you do.
• How to shift from “more is better” to “better is more” for sustainable growth.
• The hidden secret small businesses can learn from big enterprises: strategic planning.

Whether you’re a consultant, executive, or just transformation-curious, get your pen and paper—you are getting a master class in how to actually do business-led digital transformation.

• “Leadership is situational — what works today may fail tomorrow. Context is everything.” – Larry Mandelberg

• “Profit without purpose is pointless.” – Larry Mandelberg

• “Better is always better than more. Quality will always bring you quantity.” – Larry Mandelberg

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👤 About Larry Mandelberg: Larry Mandelberg is the author of Businesses Don’t Fail, They Commit Suicide, a book based on 23 years of primary research and six years of proof-of-concept work. A sought-after consultant and speaker, Larry specialises in helping organisations scale smarter, navigate the corporate life cycle, and build resilient systems that thrive in changing environments.

👨‍💼 About the Host: Heath Gascoigne is the founder and CEO of HOBA Tech, author of the international bestseller The Business Transformation Playbook, and creator of the HOBA® framework—used by governments, FTSE100 companies, and consultancies worldwide to deliver successful transformation.

🎙️ About the Podcast: The Business Transformation Podcast features real stories and practical insights from global transformation leaders. If you're involved in strategy execution, enterprise change, or technology-enabled business redesign, this is your behind-the-scenes pass into how high-impact transformations actually succeed (or fail).