MDT MANAGEMENT LAB

There’s a science to building and managing a high-performing scaleup team. The MDT Management Lab is a library of field-tested insights, frameworks, and hard-won lessons from founders, operators, and industry experts.

Explore the playbooks behind better teams, stronger leaders, and smarter company-building.

Quick reads

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Hire scrappy for early-stage growth

Perspective

Three focus hacks for founders who are doing too much

Perspective

Hire scrappy for early-stage growth

Before product-market fit, a company is still inventing itself - and early hires have to be willing to invent alongside the founder. SeedLegals CEO and Cofounder Anthony Rose explains why junior talent is better suited to the task.

Perspective

Three focus hacks for founders who are doing too much

Eric Partaker draws on behavioural science and his experience coaching over 100 companies to scale to unpack why founders who do too much are actually letting their teams down.

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Practical playbooks

Real-world frameworks for building and managing international teams — not theory.

In-depth thinking

Long-form breakdowns of hiring, retention, leadership, team design, and the management challenges that come with scale.

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Insights from working directly with scale-ups building embedded teams in South Africa.

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Perspective

Hire scrappy for early-stage growth

Before product-market fit, a company is still inventing itself - and early hires have to be willing to invent alongside the founder. SeedLegals CEO and Cofounder Anthony Rose explains why junior talent is better suited to the task.

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I forward almost every edition to my leadership team. It’s not theory — it’s frameworks we can apply immediately to how we hire and structure our teams.”

Joe Jones

Founder

CompanyCo

I forward almost every edition to my leadership team. It’s not theory — it’s frameworks we can apply immediately to how we hire and structure our teams.”

Joe Jones

Founder

CompanyCo

I forward almost every edition to my leadership team. It’s not theory — it’s frameworks we can apply immediately to how we hire and structure our teams.”

Joe Jones

Founder

CompanyCo

Perspective

Three focus hacks for founders who are doing too much

Eric Partaker draws on behavioural science and his experience coaching over 100 companies to scale to unpack why founders who do too much are actually letting their teams down.

Perspective

Hire scrappy for early-stage growth

Before product-market fit, a company is still inventing itself - and early hires have to be willing to invent alongside the founder. SeedLegals CEO and Cofounder Anthony Rose explains why junior talent is better suited to the task.