Book
The 4Sync Method
Build a Business That Depends Less on You, by Rahul Kulkarni and Rashmi Kulkarni. Its toolkit is a free Excel workbook, with no signup.
The book and its toolkitFor owners, successors and their advisers
Insights: how a business comes to run on systems
PPS Consulting India writes about one question: how a founder-led or family-run business comes to run on systems rather than on a few people. The short answer: one decision written down, one handoff given an owner and one weekly review at a time.
Here are 26 articles by Rahul Kulkarni and Rashmi Kulkarni, most of them in series that read in order, and a book with a free Excel toolkit.
Where should you start?
With the situation you are in. Each line names it the way owners and their advisers describe it to us, and gives the first thing to read.
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Everything still goes through you
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Growth has outrun the way work gets done
Start with
The People Paradox A five-part series, beginning with The People Paradox: When Teams Stop Behaving Like Families. -
You're taking over the family business
Start with
The Hidden Game of Taking Over A series that is still being written, beginning with The Hidden Game of Taking Over. -
Big projects stall halfway
Start with a case
Global finance transformation: nine workstreams on one plan Our first article on this is still to come. The case shows the work. -
You bought the tool. Adoption stalled.
Start with a case
Marketing agency: Smartsheet adoption from under 40% to 85% Our first article on this is still to come. The case shows the work. -
You advise a business family
Start with
For family offices and advisers The signs to look for, the first step and its fee, and how a referral works.
What is new?
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The Hidden Game of Taking Over · part 9
Coalition Math and Why the Majority Doesn’t Matter
Change fails when the wrong people are on board. Build a small winning coalition, neutralise the veto players and let the passive majority follow.
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The Hidden Game of Taking Over · part 8
Negotiating With the Old Guard
The old guard is protecting something, not blocking change. Trade for their interests instead of fighting their positions, and let them keep their dignity.
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The Hidden Game of Taking Over · part 7
BATNA for Internal Politics
Your authority is limited and your alternatives decide your leverage. How a BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) works in internal politics.
Who writes here?
The two founders, writing from the work itself. A version of several of these first ran in their weekly column in The Perfect Voice, a Mumbai English daily.
Rahul Kulkarni
Principal Consultant and Co-founder · MIT MicroMasters (Supply Chain)
Writes on systems, governance and diagnosis: where decisions queue, how to move them, and what advisers should look for.
About Rahul Rahul's column in The Perfect Voice (opens in a new tab)
Rashmi Kulkarni
CEO and Co-founder · PRINCE2 Practitioner
Writes on adoption and people: the old guard, culture, and what makes a change stick.
About Rashmi Rashmi's column in The Perfect Voice (opens in a new tab)
What else is here?
Self-check
The PPS Backbone Check
Eight statements on how much your business depends on a few people, scored in your browser.
Take the PPS Backbone CheckTell us two things.
What you're trying to achieve in the next 90 days, and what's breaking in execution. We'll tell you plainly what we'd fix first.
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