n this fast-paced, one-hour demo-talk, the aim is to bust the “founder-as-super-hero” myth and show why teams are living systems, not org charts. Through real-world stories and a lightning interactive exercise, the goal is to highlight how informal flows and feedback loops drive growth far more than individual leadership skills. The session will introduce the Ecocycle model to map where your initiatives sit – exploration, growth, maturity, or creative destruction – and reveal the hidden bottlenecks that keep founders stuck in fire-fighting mode.

This Power Hour led by Pedro Portela, Founder of the School of Systems & Complexity, the session packs practical tools to shift decision power from a single hero to a distributed team. If you want to scale without becoming the exhausted fire-chief, join us at UPTEC and take home a fresh, systems-level lens for building resilient, high-impact companies.