The Business Emergency Room Podcast
Hosted by Maartje van Krieken · Maartje van Krieken | The Chaos Games Consulting
5.0from 190 ratings
- 121
- Episodes
- 90
- Transcribed
- 190
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 10K
- YouTube views
About The Business Emergency Room Podcast
Scaling a business isn’t just about strategy—it’s about navigating chaos, making fast but sound decisions, and keeping teams aligned under pressure. The Business Emergency Room helps leaders, founders, and decision-makers sharpen their decision-making mechanics, master people dynamics, and build resilience in uncertain markets. Host Maartje van Krieken shares battle-tested frameworks to eliminate bottlenecks, avoid analysis paralysis, and turn turbulence into traction. Tune in weekly for real-world insights to lead with confidence and thrive in turmoil. For leaders facing: High-stakes decisions, VUCA market conditions, crisis management, and rapid business growth pains.
- Publisher
- Maartje van Krieken | The Chaos Games Consulting
- Category
- business · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Aug 2024
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
90 of 121 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
When to Walk Away: Six Signs It’s Time to Stop
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
You Think It’s a Personality Clash. It Isn’t.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Danger of Drifting: Why Businesses Fail in Volatile Times (REPLAY)
Inside a recent episode
When to Walk Away: Six Signs It’s Time to Stop
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because sometimes it's also really hard to see from the inside what when to walk away. And so I bet that your investors or your boards may see it before you see it from within the business. And so we need some language for the difficult conversations to have when we recognize these situations. So I put them into six categories because I think the majority of reasons to walk away fit in one of those. The first one, The first one I would call the fact that the model is broken, but not the execution. So basically what we're saying here, that the thesis that underpins the original business simply no longer holds. […]
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- Grant Ballard-Tremeer
- John Ross
- Rick Mekdessie
- Marina Akchurina
- Anu Rathninde
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 10,121
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 182 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100
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- Quality
- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 32
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Maartje van Krieken host the show. Published by Maartje van Krieken | The Chaos Games Consulting.
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