You Can't Recover Your Way Out of Burnout
Recovery rituals treat the symptom. The root cause is a misalignment between you and your business. Here's what actually works.
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Owner's Clarity
Who you are, what you want, and what you need from the business. Purpose, identity, intent and capacity: the owner’s constraints, and what happens to a firm that keeps violating them.
Owner's Clarity
The "Work ON The Business" Trap
Everyone tells you to pull yourself out of the day-to-day. Nobody tells you what happens when you actually do.
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The Founder Is The Position
You're already making the decisions that define your firm's position. The problem is, you're making them without a positioning filter, either because you think positioning is someone else's job, or because you don't have the personal clarity yet, to...
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The Investment Most Founders Never Make
Your burnout isn't a mindset problem. It's a positioning problem. The standard advice—niche down, productize, remove yourself from the day-to-day—isn't wrong. It's just missing the most important context. You. This guide introduces the...
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You, And Your Firm, Are Drifting. Here's Why.
His firm was profitable. His growth had stalled. And he'd just launched an internship program that made no sense for the business. All three things were connected.
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Ambiguous Positioning Causes Burnout
A new framework for understanding founder burnout through the lens of positioning.
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The 4 Constraints That Quietly Kill Founders (and their firms)
Most “growth problems” trace back to something simpler and more uncomfortable: the business keeps violating the owner’s constraints. The firm can look healthy on paper while the owner slowly checks out. And once that starts, the...
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Your Firm Has a You Problem
As a founder of a boutique firm, you need to first be personally excited about the direction of the firm before anything else can happen. This means ensuring there is alignment between your personal purpose and values, and that of your firm. No...
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Owner's Intent: Do You Know What Yours Is?
Owner's intent is what success looks like in owning this business now and in the future. It needs to be specific. It needs to be measurable. It needs to be personal. Owner's intent is important because it gives you, the owner, focus by painting a...
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Let's Stop Bullshitting Each Other... and Ourselves
Consulting firm founders and go-to-market leaders (aka marketing and business development leaders) aren't doing themselves and each other any favors...
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Living in Alignment: For You, Your Family, and Your Firm
Alignment isn’t a one-and-done exercise; it’s an ongoing discipline. As your life and your firm evolve, so too must the match between them. Clarity about who you are and why you do this work will keep you—and everyone you...
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