Blog tagged as Systems & Growth

Why Your Biggest Competitor Is the Version of You from Two Years Ago

The market that your strategy was built for no longer exists in quite the same form. The clients you built it for have evolved. The question is whether your business has evolved with them — or whether you are still fighting with yes...

The Exit You Have Never Planned — And Why You Should Start Today

Exit planning is not about leaving your business. It is about building a business that is worth something — to you, to a buyer, and to the people who depend on it.

Mention exit planning to most founders and you get one of two responses. ...

The Strategy You Never Actually Had

Most founders confuse having a direction with having a strategy. One gets you moving. The other tells you where you are going and why — and without it, all the movement in the world just gets you somewhere you did not mean to be.

At the end of every year, the founde...

The Systems You Keep Meaning to Build

The system that would free your time, scale your delivery, and reduce your dependency has been on your to-do list for eighteen months. Here is why it stays there and how to get it off.

After every difficult project delivery, the founder makes the same promise. Nex...