The Leak — A Publication by The Unicorn Mentor
Most businesses don’t fail overnight. They leak first.
You’re growing. Revenue is moving. The team is busy. And yet something isn’t adding up — the ambition is there, but the momentum feels borrowed. Decisions that should take days take weeks. Strategies that looked bulletproof in the boardroom dissolve somewhere in the middle. Good people are exhausted but the needle barely moves.
That’s not a strategy problem. That’s a leak.
The Leak is the publication for founders and leaders navigating the £3M–£50M journey - the most critical, and most underserved, stage of business growth. Every issue goes straight to the operational and strategic fractures quietly draining value from businesses that should be scaling. No padding. No generic frameworks. Just the specific, high-leverage insights that separate companies that break through from those that stall out.
I’m Stuart Webb — 3x founder, Non-Executive Director, and creator of the PATH 2 SCALE Framework. After a research career at Oxford and 20+ years scaling businesses across sectors, I built The Unicorn Mentor to do one thing: help leaders stop the leaks before they sink the ship.
Each issue tackles one real problem. One clear diagnosis. One actionable fix.
Start with the first post: Why 70% of Brilliant Strategies Die in the “Middle” — and find out whether your bridge between vision and execution is strong enough to carry the weight of your ambition.
And if you want to know exactly where your business is leaking right now, grab the free Stop the Leaks Assessment below.