Pain, change, and business growth

I shared a little bit of my own story about a family business turnaround in a previous story here on Medium. In the end, few of the people in the top level management positions survived that turn around yet none of them were simply fired. Most left on their own […]

Find your passion through taking action

ou may have seen the pie charts that show the realm of what you know, vs what you know you don’t know, vs (the largest area) of what you don’t know you don’t know. For most of us our passions are an itch within ourselves waiting to find a home. […]

Fighting Against Gravity

Jocko Willink has some important words about a different kind of gravity:

FIGHTING GRAVITY. pic.twitter.com/yBHhvhYxzI

— Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) March 24, 2017

When you’re working out you’re fighting against gravity. Gravity is pulling the weights down, it is pulling your body weight down, it’s preventing you from […]

The importance of finding a peer group for growth

I was recently in a conversation with someone who reminded me of my own story — let us call him Jim. Jim joined YEO (now simply known as EO) at a time when he had around $1.4M in annual sales. It is same hurdle now as it was back then […]

How is owning a startup business like owning a failing business?

I have been in a few of these places — meaning I have been able to say I turned a failing business into a success, I have had to close a once prosperous business that no longer could find a reason to survive in a changed world, I have been a […]