Blogs
What If Growth Isn't Your Biggest Opportunity?
For most business owners, that probably sounds like a strange question.
After all, growth is usually the goal. More customers, more projects, more revenue.
What Entering New Industries Taught Me About Leadership
One of the things I appreciate most about my career is that I have been blessed with the opportunity to work across several different industries and business environments over the years.
Every time I made one of those transitions, I was reminded of something that took me a while to fully appreciate.
The Hidden Risk of Being Too Accessible as a Leader
Why hands-on leadership must eventually evolve into trust, ownership, and empowerment.
For most of my career, I viewed being highly accessible and hands-on as one of my strengths.
And in many situations, it was.
To ERP or Not to ERP: That Is the Question
At some point, every growing business feels it.
What used to work… now doesn’t.
Too many spreadsheets and manual processes. Systems that don’t connect, and the team is chasing data instead of utilizing it.
So… When does an ERP actually make sense?
Patience vs. Accountability Isn’t a Choice
As leaders, we are constantly walking this line:
How long do you give someone to figure it out… before it becomes something you need to address?
When Everyone Is Right… and It’s Still Not Working
I stepped in to run a distribution business that wasn’t performing.
Not because of bad people. Not because of bad tools.
Because things just weren’t lining up.
In my first 30 days, I kept hearing…
Your Bottleneck Isn’t People. It’s Coordination
Most teams aren’t underperforming; they’re constantly compensating for things that don’t quite come together.
Everyone is focused on speeding up the work.
Almost no one is fixing what happens between it.
The Plateau We May Overlook.
The goal isn't to know more, it's to learn more.
Early in our careers, learning is the job.
We ask a lot of questions.
We don’t mind not knowing.
There’s no pressure to have it all figured out.
Then something shifts.
The AI-Assisted Project Manager
I had a conversation recently with a business owner who’s struggling to hire a qualified project manager.
It’s a familiar story, too junior, too expensive, or just not qualified.
But it got me thinking:
What if the problem isn’t the talent pool…
What if it’s how we’re defining “qualified”?