The Rainmaker Blog – Building People, Leaders, Teams & Economic Moats (2)

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Some Years You Win and Some Years You Build Character

May 20, 2025

Steve Jobs famously stated, "I am convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." Jobs' timeless quote ...

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

Team Effectiveness

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

Scaling Up

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

Scaling Up

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

Scaling Up

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

Scaling Up

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 ...

Scaling Up

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

Scaling Up

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 ...

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