The Counterfeit Bench
What does it truly cost someone on your bench to tell you the truth?
The Cost of Compounding
The load-bearing middle of any serious endeavor is where men most capable of completing it decide to exit.
Two Questions To Ask Before You Leave
Thinking about leaving your job to build something of your own? You’re starting with the wrong question.
The Hammer in Your Hand is Costing You the Business
Most owner-operators in trades and blue-collar businesses reach a point where the business stops expanding and starts…
The Illusion of Accountability
A business review process that produces awareness without a response is just a sophisticated way of watching problems develop.
Revenue is Up, The Team is Down
The cost of not raising prices is distributed across time and has a devastating, compounding effect.
When the Problem is the Premise
Execution problems are often expectation problems. When a man expects progress to be linear, feedback to be immediate, or effort to be consistently rewarded, normal friction starts to feel like failure.
Be Patient Now. Be Dangerous Later.
The early phases of meaningful growth are quiet. There is little applause, little feedback, and little proof that others can see.