Are You Getting What You Want?
Most owners make decisions for business reasons, not personal ones. The Owner's Outcome fixes that. Here is how to define yours, review it every 90 days, and use it to evaluate every decision the business makes.…
What Anti-Vision Surprisingly Showed Me
I did the anti-vision exercise out of curiosity. What I discovered wasn't motivation, it was a diagnostic that surfaced the patterns already getting in my way.…
Thirty Years. One Company. One Exit. Here's What I Learned.
I spent 25 years building a company the hard way. Here's what I learned about systems, strategy, panic, and what it actually takes to build a business that runs without you.…
Skip Level Reviews
Founders see results, but rarely how managers lead. Skip level reviews close that gap — surfacing feedback that helps managers improve. One conversation, one improvement, every 90 days.…
Compensation
A practical compensation model for private companies: benchmarked base pay, role-based variable comp tied to critical numbers, monthly profit sharing to build financial literacy, and sale-only phantom-style exit bonuses that avoid equity complexity.…
Severance
If you’re letting someone go for performance, pay generous severance. Not to reward underperformance, but to end things cleanly—with accountability, compassion, and respect. Most exits fall into 3 patterns, and each teaches a different lesson.…
Scoreboard Day And The Weekly Leadership Review
How to actually use dashboards to ignite continuous improvement: a simple weekly rhythm where Scoreboard Day exposes the numbers, Fritz-style situation reports explain every red, and a focused leadership status review turns gaps into structural fixes.…
How I Create Strategy
Strategy is doing the work to decide exactly what you want, who you’ll serve, how you’ll be distinctively better – then shipping one meaningful improvement every 90 days and not messing with it.…