The Growth Compass

09/16/2026

https://www.thegrowthcompass.com/growth-insights/the-rprs-reality-check-why-hire-slow-fire-fast-is-quietly-costing-you

"Hire slow, fire fast" can cost you 6–12 months in this market. Why RPRS isn't the problem, the 90% bar is, and how to reset it without lowering your standards.

09/03/2026

Almost every business eventually hits a losing streak.

That is the point where the old operating model visibly fails. Not a bad month. Not a soft quarter. The moment the way you have always run the company stops working, in a way everyone can see.

In 2008, the Detroit Lions went 0-16 and gave up a franchise-record 517 points. The head coach was fired the day after the season ended. Nobody had to interpret that scoreboard.

Business rarely hands you a 0-16 in a single season. It hands you a slow leak, and slow leaks get called “a rough patch” for years.

Three signals you are in one right now:

1. The same issue surfaces in three different meetings. Different department, different framing, same root cause. Nobody solves it because everyone assumes it belongs to somebody else.

2. Your best people are working harder for the same output. Effort is up, traction is flat. That gap is the system telling you it cannot carry any more weight.

3. Every fix is a person. New hire, reorg, someone “stepping up.”

If your last four solutions were all personnel decisions and the number still has not moved, the problem is not the people.

A 2008 season is not a verdict. Detroit’s ROCK bottom turned out to be a starting line. But it only works that way if you name it out loud instead of waiting for it to pass.

What did your 2008 season look like, and how long did you call it something else?

09/02/2026

https://www.thegrowthcompass.com/growth-insights/what-the-detroit-lions-can-teach-us-about-running-on-eos

Talent alone never wins. See how the Detroit Lions' turnaround illustrates the EOS principles of right people, clear accountability, and disciplined ex*****on.

09/01/2026

Talent does not build legacies. Systems do.

The most talented person I ever watched fail was not bad at their job. They were excellent at it, inside an organization that had no idea what to do with excellence.

That is the part nobody wants to hear. You can put the best available person in the most important seat in the company, hand them a record-setting run of production, and still lose.

Talent is a moment. A system is a machine.

Moments end. Machines compound.

Most leadership teams I meet are still trying to solve a system problem with a personnel decision, because personnel decisions feel faster and look like action.

They are not faster. They just fail later.

What is the last problem you tried to hire your way out of?

08/06/2026

https://www.thegrowthcompass.com/growth-insights/built-to-leave-the-real-job-of-an-interimfractional-integrator

A Fractional Integrator isn't built to stay. Learn how to build trust fast, work yourself out of the seat, and hand off a stronger business.

08/05/2026

https://www.thegrowthcompass.com/growth-insights/ex*****on-without-strategy-is-just-busy-work

Great operations won't carry a business alone. How a fractional Integrator closed the SMB strategy gap with Growth Navigator, an EOS planning-session ready tool.

08/04/2026

https://www.thegrowthcompass.com/growth-insights/when-an-integrator-is-a-coo

An EOS Integrator is defined by accountability, not title. Learn the 4 distinctions that separate the Integrator seat from a COO—and why it matters.

06/16/2026

A year ago, I started working with Dr. Gregory Laurence to grow sYlf Regenerative Medicine. Watching what his team has built since then — I couldn't be more proud.

Last month, Tennessee became the FIRST STATE in the nation to pass legislation allowing qualified physicians to offer stem cell and regenerative medicine treatments. And Dr. Laurence is right in the middle of it.

This is what happens when a great leader gets clear on their vision and commits to doing the work. So proud of you and your team. Tennessee, no wait, the WORLD is ready for what you're building.


The Growth Compass
EOS Worldwide

House Bill 2246 makes Tennessee the first state in the nation to allow qualified physicians across all specialties to provide stem cell and regenerative medicine treatments. Joining us today to talk about this new legislation is Dr. Gregory Laurence.

04/30/2026

Six years ago, the world slowed down in a way none of us could have imagined.

Overnight, the everyday moments we barely noticed were gone…

Dinners with friends. Packed fitness classes. Coffee across the table. Classrooms and dance floors buzzing with energy. Conferences full of conversation.

The simple, powerful act of being together.

Well last week, as I attended the conference with EOS Worldwide, those memories came rushing back and they changed how I showed up.

I found myself being more intentional…choosing presence over distraction, depth over small talk, and real connection over surface-level interactions.

The pandemic may have reshaped how we live.

AI may be reshaping how we work.

Yet nothing can replace our fundamental need for genuine human connection. That is something I will never take for granted again.