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08/28/2026

A lot of founders wait to get organized until things calm down.

Here's the thing: things rarely calm down on their own. The businesses that grow well are almost never the ones waiting for a quiet moment.

Once you can actually see where the chaos is coming from, you're not guessing anymore about what to fix. If you want a second set of eyes on where it's showing up in your business, I've got a few spots left in this quarter's free Strategic Growth Audit.

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A free strategic audit: a self-guided assessment plus a 15 minute call with Laurie to review your results and map next steps.

08/28/2026

Quick reminder before the weekend: you can't fix what you can't see.

Before you jump into fixing something, take a minute to actually see where the friction is coming from. It might change what you decide to fix first.

08/21/2026

"I don't know what's happening unless I ask."

If that sounds familiar, you're definitely not alone. It's one of the most common things I hear from founders.

It's rarely about trust. It's usually just that there's no easy way to see what's going on without asking directly, and that's a system problem, not a people problem.

08/14/2026

08/13/2026

A client told me something recently that really stuck with me.

She said two people on her team had been answering the same kind of question differently for months, and a client was the one who finally pointed it out.

Once they wrote down one standard answer, the inconsistency disappeared completely. It usually takes someone outside the business to see what's been hiding in plain sight.

08/12/2026

Would your team handle the same request the same way, no matter who picked it up?

For a lot of businesses, honestly, no.

And it's not because anyone's doing a bad job. It's because nobody ever wrote down what "the right way" actually looks like.

This week I wrote about what happens when consistency depends on memory instead of a system, and what changes once it doesn't. It's in this week's newsletter if you want the fuller version.

08/11/2026

Would two people on your team handle the exact same request the exact same way?

For a lot of businesses, honestly, no. And that's not really anyone's fault.

Nobody ever sat down and wrote out what "the right way" actually looks like, so everyone's just doing their best guess, and the outcome ends up depending on who's handling it that day.

08/06/2026

Ever feel like everyone on your team is busy, but you can't tell if anything's actually moving forward?

That was the question behind this week's carousel.

Swipe through for what's usually really going on.

08/06/2026

Does it feel like everything is harder than it should be lately?

You're not imagining it, and you're probably not doing anything wrong.

Most of the time it's not one big problem. It's a bunch of small ones that built up quietly: a step nobody wrote down, a decision that only you can make, a handoff that never got clear.

I call that Operational Chaos™, and this month I'm walking through what it actually looks like day to day, starting here.

08/05/2026

Lisa DeToffol Tiger Eye Solutionasked me some questions on Tiger Eye Talk this week that I don't usually get asked in a business conversation.

Not "what services do you offer."

More like: what's the best compliment you've ever received from a client. What's a lesson you learned the hard way. What's your biggest pet peeve in this work.

Those questions get to something the surface-level ones never do. They get to what actually makes this work meaningful, and where it gets hard.

Thank you, Lisa, for asking questions that went somewhere real.

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