Growth Navigator Solutions, LLC

Growth Navigator Solutions, LLC Working with business owners and their leadership teams who believe they should be doing better.

06/18/2026

Something that changed how I think about meetings:

In the Army, every session had a stated purpose before anyone walked in. Mission briefings were mission briefings. After-action reviews were after-action reviews. You didn't mix them. The stakes were too high to waste the time.

Then I got into the business world and sat in meetings trying to be six things at once.

Status update. Problem-solving. Strategy. Logistics. All crammed into the same hour with no room for any of it to land.

What's worked for me and for the business owners I work with is giving each type of conversation its own container. Quick daily check-ins for what's happening today. Weekly meetings for solving specific problems. Monthly for the bigger questions. Quarterly for direction and culture.

When a meeting knows what it is, everyone in it knows how to show up.

Not a people problem. A design problem.

Here's something I ask pretty early when I sit down with a new client: what do you track every week?Not what you could p...
06/17/2026

Here's something I ask pretty early when I sit down with a new client: what do you track every week?

Not what you could pull up if you needed to. What do you actually review, consistently, without being prompted?

The answer tells me a lot. Because what doesn't get measured tends to drift. Slowly at first. Then all at once.

A simple weekly scorecard, two to five numbers that actually matter, is one of the highest-leverage habits a business owner can build. You can't lead what you can't see.

There's a difference between a busy team and a productive one, and I've seen both up close.The busy team has full calend...
06/16/2026

There's a difference between a busy team and a productive one, and I've seen both up close.

The busy team has full calendars, lots of communication, and a sense of constant motion.

The productive team has clear priorities, protected time, and moves the things that actually matter.

The gap is almost always clarity. Not effort.

If your team is working hard but the needle isn't moving, it's worth asking whether everyone knows which needle is supposed to be moving.

I want to share something that took me way too long to figure out about myself.I was productive on paper and exhausted u...
06/15/2026

I want to share something that took me way too long to figure out about myself.

I was productive on paper and exhausted underneath it. Every day, plenty to show for it, nothing left at the end.

What I eventually discovered through the Working Genius framework: I'd been doing a lot of work I was capable of but wasn't built for. The type that costs twice as much energy to produce, even when you're good at it.

Once I could name it, I could make different choices. About what I took on. What I handed off. Who I brought around me to fill the gaps.

The goal isn't to only do what's easy. It's to understand what energizes you and build your work around more of that.

You'll get more done. And you'll actually have something left when you walk through the door at home.

06/14/2026

A question worth sitting with this weekend:

If your profit margin doubled next year, same revenue, what changes?

Not just the obvious stuff (more pay, better equipment). What changes about how you lead? Which conversations do you have that you've been putting off? Which hires do you finally make? What do you stop doing yourself?

Margin isn't just a number. It's what buys you the options to lead the way you actually want to.

What's on the other side of margin for you?

Here's a KPI most businesses never track: the owner's energy.Not in a vague "take care of yourself" way. In a real, oper...
06/13/2026

Here's a KPI most businesses never track: the owner's energy.

Not in a vague "take care of yourself" way. In a real, operational sense. Because a depleted owner makes different decisions than a focused one. Reactive instead of strategic. Tolerant of problems they should be addressing. Absent from the forward-looking work because the day-to-day never ends.

Everything downstream from the owner is affected by what the owner brings to the table.

It's worth honest measurement. Not just awareness.

06/12/2026

We had a training event stateside with the 160th SOAR.

I was the aviation liaison and lead planner, so my job was simple on paper: build a clean plan so the commander and crews could execute on day one.

Minor incident early on, helicopter tail hit the side of a building.

Nobody hurt. Annoying, but manageable.

Then it happened again about 30 minutes later.

Then a third time.

That’s when the tone changed.

Because the question wasn’t “Which crew messed up?”

It was: Where did the plan fail?

So I went back through everything:

hazards near the site

what we briefed vs. what we assumed people understood

what “stop conditions” we’d actually made clear

who owned what decisions once things started stacking up

That’s the part people miss about accountability.

It doesn’t start with the newest guy getting chewed out.

It starts with whoever owns the plan. And in a lot of businesses… that’s the owner.

Be honest: where are you asking for accountability from your team while letting your own plan stay a little soft?

Where’s the tail hitting the building… again?

One of the most uncomfortable books I've read is Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There.The premise:...
06/11/2026

One of the most uncomfortable books I've read is Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

The premise: the behaviors that made you successful at one level often become the behaviors that hold you back at the next. The drive that built the business becomes micromanagement. The hands-on approach that made you great at the craft becomes an inability to let go.

It's not a character flaw. It's a transition problem. The context changed and the habits didn't.

The hardest question the book asks: what are you still doing that made sense when the business was smaller?

Here's something I've heard from more business owners than I expected."I feel guilty when the business is profitable. Li...
06/09/2026

Here's something I've heard from more business owners than I expected.

"I feel guilty when the business is profitable. Like I should be putting it back in, not keeping it."

It comes from a good place, a real desire to take care of people and not appear motivated by money. But the guilt is misplaced.

Profit isn't the opposite of generosity. It's what makes generosity sustainable.

A business that's always running on the edge doesn't have the capacity to be good to its people when things get hard. A profitable business can weather the bad quarter without laying someone off. Can pay people well. Can say yes to opportunities.

Profit gives you options. And options let you lead the way you actually want to.

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