Rajesh Nagjee joins Jeff Sesol and Jana Landry on the Pull the Chute Podcast to unpack why most leadership and scale challenges are structural problems.
Drawing from three distinct careers: family enterprise, professional musician, and hospital founder, Rajesh explains how applying business physics reveals the real bottlenecks holding leaders and organizations back. The conversation explores inner vs. outer game constraints, why every promotion creates temporary incompetence, and how CEOs unintentionally become the weakest link as their companies grow.
This episode is a grounded, practical look at leadership through the lens of decision flow, constraints, and human behavior, without theory for theory’s sake.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
Why most business advice explains success but doesn’t make businesses work
How the Theory of Constraints applies to leadership and decision-making
Why scaling companies outgrow the founder’s original operating system
The hidden cost of fear, anxiety, and past-driven decisions at the CEO level
How inner-game bottlenecks slow execution just as much as operational ones
Why short-term survival often crowds out long-term growth
A simple framework CEOs use to regain clarity, control, and momentum
Pull the Chute is a leadership podcast hosted by Jeff Sesol and Jana Landry, featuring conversations with founders and executives on culture, leadership, and organizational growth. The show focuses on helping leaders pause, reset, and build companies that scale by growing their people, not burning them out.
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