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Teams that use a disciplined approach to team building win much more

Team Building Is A Leadership System - Not a Retreat

May 15, 2025

Most companies treat team building like a box to check. A quarterly happy hour. A ropes course (remember those?). An annual offsite where everyone plays along. Then they return to ...

mental models for scaling founder ceos frameworks

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The Mental Models Every Founder/CEO Must Master to Scale with Discipline

May 13, 2025

Most Founder / CEOs fail due to lack of frameworks Most Founder/CEOs do not fail because of a lack of ambition—they fail because of a lack of mental models or frameworks. Mental ...

The Key To Scaling a Company is CEO Critical Self Awareness

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You Are the Bottleneck: Why Critical Self-Awareness Is the CEO’s Most Underrated Performance Tool

Apr 22, 2025

Executive Summary: Most founders obsess over fixing their team — better hires, tighter meetings, clearer KPIs — but ignore the biggest leverage point: themselves. This piece makes ...

Get rid of the elephant in the room with The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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About Your Elephant in the Room: Why Teams Fear Real Conversations

Mar 19, 2025

"Why was this not brought to my attention sooner?" Recently a Client I have contact with once every year or two called me and said, "Chris, I believe I have a problem..." He then ...

Gapology - mind the gaps in your business model

Gapology: The Missing Link for Scaling Companies

Mar 15, 2025

Scaling a company is not just about increasing revenue, adding employees, or expanding into new markets. It is about eliminating the barriers that slow growth, erode efficiency, ...

Stop fooling yourself - build and scale a team that wins

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Hire, Develop, and Scale Like You Mean It

Mar 13, 2025

Stop Fooling Yourself If you expect to scale your business model, nothing and I mean NOTHING matters more than having a mission, vision, values (purpose) coupled with the right ...

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Are You Lucky or Are You Good?

Mar 11, 2025

Luck Is Not a Strategy Success in business is often attributed to a combination of skill, strategy, and timing. However, there is an uncomfortable question that every founder and ...

High-performing teams row with discipline

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The Secret to Building High-Performing Teams.

Mar 6, 2025

The Secret To Building High-Performing Teams Is DISCIPLINE. High-performing teams do not occur by accident. High-performing teams are thoughtfully designed and built through ...

Scaling a business requires scaling the executive team intentionally seeking more flow - less friction

More Flow, Less Friction: Scaling with the Right People in the Right Roles

Mar 4, 2025

Friction vs. Flow: The REAL Difference Between Struggling and Scaling Scaling anything is challenging.

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