Growth Insights for CEOs
Advice for CEOs on Growth and Scaling
Paul Sparrow
Paul Sparrow is a Managing Partner based in Charleston, South Carolina. He places battle-tested CMOs and CSOs in right-sized client engagements to generate growth strategies that achieve revenue acceleration and profitability. Paul is a business growth expert with over 30 years of strategic development and execution in a variety of industries and organizational settings, including Fortune 50, startups, turnarounds, and emerging growth. He can be reached via email at psparrow@chiefoutsiders.com or at (615) 351-7189.
Recent Posts

How to Engage Hard-to-Reach CXOs: The New Growth Playbook
Sun, Oct 25, 2026 | Posted by Ron Greenberg
Executive Takeaways
- Hard-to-reach CXOs engage when you provide insights connected to the business outcomes they own.
- Developing meaningful insights takes extra effort, synthesizing data, research, and discussions—to identify where new value can be created.
- The insights that matter explain what is changing and why—and where new value or growth can be created.
- Building these capabilities results in a more repeatable path toward achieving executive engagement, lasting relationships, and growth.
This blog is part of Chief Outsiders’ New Growth Imperative series, designed to help CEOs and leadership teams engage executive decision-makers at targeted strategic accounts by turning deep insights into compelling customer value.
Recent Posts

Closing the Small to Mid-Sized Company Merger – Is It Too Risky to Ink the Deal?
Thu, Mar 17, 2016 — In our previous post, we lit the fuse on the concept of how a merger or acquisition may be beneficial when swashbuckling one’s way through the uber-competitive marketing landscape of the present. By making it this far, you may have decided that this strategy may be prudent -- especially now that you know when and why you might consider M&A for your company. So let’s now take a look at the downside of such an initiative—the “glass-half-empty scenario.”
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