Derr Consulting

06/01/2026

Most customers do not need more promises.

They need more consistency.

Be 10% more reliable.
Answer faster.
Show up on time.
Do what you said you would do.

Reliability builds trust faster than adding more value no one asked for.

06/01/2026

Most people leave money on the table every single day on LinkedIn.

Not because they aren't posting, but because they lack commenting.

Commenting on the right people's posts is one of the fastest ways to build visibility, credibility, and real relationships on this platform. Their audience sees your name. The algorithm rewards your activity. And the person you're engaging with notices over time.

The problem? Most people scroll and hope they catch the posts that matter.

Here's how to stop hoping and start being intentional. Takes less than 5 minutes to set up.

Open LinkedIn.
Put your cursor in the search field, don't type anything, and press enter.
Choose Posts.
Click "From Member" and search and select every key leader you want in this feed.
Change "Sort By" to Latest.
Save that URL or bookmark it.

Now every morning you open one link and you're looking at the freshest posts from the exact people you want to be engaging with.

No more algorithm guessing or endless scrolling. You go straight to the work.

This is how you build a commenting habit that actually sticks.

Consistency beats intensity on LinkedIn every time.

The people winning here are not just posting more but are showing up for others more.

Build your list and bookmark the page. Show up every day.

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05/31/2026

A guy walked up to me at the car wash last week and asked, "Are you Forrest?"

He said we had talked a couple of years ago about EOS. He wanted me to know that he had finally pulled the trigger, hired an Implementer, and was now officially implementing.

He also said he was ready to start coming to ENRG meetings.

I didn't remember the exact conversation. But he did.

That's the thing about planting seeds. You don't always see them grow. Sometimes they show up at the car wash two years later and tell you everything you need to know.

No pitch. No follow-up email. Just a conversation that mattered enough for someone to act on it eventually.

That's why I keep showing up and keep talking about EOS.

You never know who's listening.

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator. I Make YOUR Cell Phone Stop Ringing and YOUR Bank Account Start Singing
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05/30/2026

When I moved to Alabama from the North, I was convinced Southern girls liked me.

Every one of them was warm, friendly, and genuinely happy to meet me.

I was wrong.

They were just nice. That's what they do down here. It had nothing to do with me.

It took a while, but I finally figured it out. Southern hospitality is real, it's genuine, and it has nothing to do with romantic interest.

Business works the same way.

Your team will smile and say "sounds good" when what they really mean is "I have no idea what you're talking about" or "this plan will never work."

They're not lying. They're being polite.

And it's killing your business.

The best thing you can do for the people on your team is tell them the truth. Not the harsh, demoralizing version. The compassionate, direct version.

Tell them when they're off track. Tell them when their numbers are slipping. Tell them when they're in the wrong seat.

That's not being hard on people. That's actually caring about them.

Nice without clarity is just noise.

I eventually found the southern woman who was right for me. Actually we got together after I was direct and told her she needed to quiet down at an event. True story.

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator. I Make YOUR Cell Phone Stop Ringing and YOUR Bank Account Start Singing
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05/29/2026

A visual clock changed the attitude in the company.

Not because people could not tell time.
Because it created awareness.

Start times became real.
Transitions got tighter.
Meetings started on time.
Work started with purpose.

Consistency scales a business.
Sometimes it starts with something as simple as a clock on the wall.

05/29/2026

Headed to Birmingham for SlossTech June 25 and 26.

Sloss Tech is the South’s premier tech and innovation conference, bringing together founders, operators, investors, and industry leaders for three days of high impact conversations and collaboration.

I will be available for Zoom meetings on June 25 and 26 while I’m there.

If you want to connect, talk operations, EOS, fractional leadership, or business growth, send me a message and let’s get some time on the calendar.

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05/29/2026

Changing your back office operating system is one of the most underestimated decisions a growing company can make.

I'm not saying don't do it, because sometimes it's necessary and the right call.

Almost every founder or operator I talk to who has been through a platform change tells me the same thing: "I had no idea it was going to be this hard."

Think about building a house. When you're designing it, you look at the closet plan and think you have plenty of storage. Then you move in, and within six months you realize you should have doubled every closet in the house.

Switching platforms works exactly the same way.

You will not be able to accurately estimate the disruption before you start. The plan will look reasonable on paper, the vendor will give you a rosy timeline, and your internal champion will be optimistic going in.

Then reality shows up.

Employee training gaps, resistance to change, technical failures nobody anticipated, customer-facing problems that hit at the worst possible time, and process breakdowns where the old system and the new system refuse to talk to each other the way you expected are all waiting for you on the other side of go-live.

The hard costs are visible on the budget. The soft costs are what will bury you if you are not prepared.

Lost productivity, leadership bandwidth consumed by firefighting, employee frustration that bleeds into morale, and customer experience erosion that takes months to notice and even longer to recover from are the costs that never show up in the implementation proposal.

Here is what I tell every client considering a platform change: plan for it to take longer, cost more, and hurt more than you think it will, and then build your contingency plan before you flip the switch, not after things go sideways.

The companies that get through these transitions well are not the ones with the best implementation plan. They are the ones who planned for failure and had a response ready before the first problem hit.

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator. I Make YOUR Cell Phone Stop Ringing and YOUR Bank Account Start Singing
📌 Follow me for real stories on building better businesses.
📘 Grab a playbook at https://fractionatorplaybooks.com/
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05/28/2026

I built my Fractional COO business in 10 days.

No ads. No funnels. No safety net.

Left full-time and filled the pipeline fast.

Now I get the same questions every week:

What do I sell first?
How do I price it?
How do I get clients?
What mistakes should I avoid?

We will walk through it live.

No slides. No script. Just straight answers.

Thursday, June 11
4:00 PM CST

Comment ZOOM and send a DM with your email. Include AMA.

If you are planning your move, just send the DM.

First 10 people get a seat.

05/28/2026

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05/28/2026

"Companies stop growing externally when leaders stop growing internally." — Jonathan Reynolds

I've watched this play out in 15+ industries over 30 years. Every single time.

The grocery chain that plateaued at 12 stores. The founder hadn't read a business book in five years. He hadn't sought a mentor or questioned his own assumptions. The team was ready to scale but we wasn't.

The construction company that lost three key leaders in 18 months. The owner had stopped listening. He was the same guy he was in year one but now running a company three times the size. A different season requires a different skill set, and that math wasn't adding up.

The staffing firm that couldn't close enterprise deals. The CEO was sharp, but still operating like a transactional salesperson. He never invested in understanding enterprise buying cycles or relationship-driven growth. He stayed comfortable while the market moved on.

In every case, the business hit the ceiling of the leader who ran it.

It's not a strategy problem, marketing problem, or a a people problem. It's a growth problem, and it starts at the top.

I've seen the reverse too. Leaders who committed to coaching, peer groups, clarity breaks, and hard feedback didn't just grow their companies. They transformed them.

The business always reflects the leader. That has been true in every industry, every company size, and every season of growth I've been a part of over 30 years.

If your company has stopped growing, before you hire a consultant or rework your marketing, ask yourself one question: When did I last grow?

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator. I Make YOUR Cell Phone Stop Ringing and YOUR Bank Account Start Singing
📌 Follow me for real stories on building better businesses.
📘 Grab a playbook at https://fractionatorplaybooks.com/
🎙 Follow the Fixers & Founders podcast to hear from fixers and founders.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/
🔔 Turn on notifications, so you don't miss a post.
🗣 Like, comment, and share if this resonates.