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“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” is a phrase coach Taylor uses to inspire his Texas high school football team to victory in the TV series “Friday Night Lights”. Bringing everyone on board and building “full hearts” is, and should be, part of the strategic planning process for any company....

Creating compensation packages for your team members is challenging. There are so many factors to consider that it can be downright frightening, even for experienced managers. Ensuring equal pay for equal work, offering a competitive package at recruitment, planning for regular salary increases—the challenges are almost endless. One of the...

High-growth companies go through many rapid changes as they scale. One of the hardest transitions often happens early in the company’s lifecycle when they begin to take on money from professional investors. This is known as a Series A financing. Before that, companies are either financed by seed money, backed...

Employee exit interviews are like having ‘The Talk’ with your kids. Everyone knows it’s coming but no one really wants to be involved. If you’ve ever been on either side of an exit interview, you know that they can be awkward at best and damaging at worst. The feedback offered...

Sometime in the late Twentieth Century, the term ‘manager’ became a four-letter word. It was a clear indicator of inefficiency and redundancy. Even worse was the term ‘middle-manager’ — now synonymous with ‘useless’. As we near the third decade of this century, technology has become an efficient response to the...

Most organizations grow organically. They’re founded by a person or people who believe they can do something better than what the market currently offers. Naturally, those people may carry over learnings from their education and work experience, perpetuating systems or processes that may be dated or flawed to begin with....

If you’ve ever been part of a growing company, especially one that started out with 3-4 people sharing a handful of desks, you’ll understand that how you communicate as a company changes completely as you begin to scale. In the beginning, everyone knows pretty much everything. You’re always chatting across...

Operations are often referred to as the ‘ugly stepchild’ of a business and it's easy to understand why. There’s no instant gratification of a flashy marketing campaign, no rush of closing a big sale, and no big launch for the latest product. Operations are often invisible to the rest of...

Growing up isn’t always easy. If you remember your teenage years, you’ll know that navigating the period between your carefree youth, when everything was new and exciting, and adulthood, when you’re more mature and self-assured, can be rocky. Everything you thought you knew gets turned on its head, you have...