Stampeding Herd Driven Growth

Stop Building New Products—Start Moving the Herd You Already Have

2/18/20261 min read

Office lights blinked. Emails stacked like bricks. Board members paced.

Three micro-details: coffee cup shattered, phone vibrated, a whiteboard marker squeaked.

I ran the numbers in my head.

New product launches meant months of delay.

Herd activation? One week.

Binary choice:

Chase the next shiny thing or

Whipcrack the herd into motion.

“Move them. Now,” I muttered under my breath.

Fingers on the keyboard, messaging ready.

The quietest account went viral first, dragging the rest along.

A slow herd means lost revenue.

A fast herd means market control.

What if your next launch wasn’t a product

—but a stampede?