You know that feeling when you’re trying to work on the business, but the day-to-day keeps pulling you back in? ... A manager needs help with a team issue. ... Someone is waiting on you to make a decision. ... A project is stalled because no one wants to make the...
Murray Kent paid $40,000 for a four-person electrical conduit fittings business operating out of what he generously described as a crack den. A decade later, a private equity-backed acquirer wrote him a check for 6.2 times EBITDA. All cash. No earnout. No...
A while back, I sat in our conference room with a leadership team exploring a potential acquisition opportunity. From their perspective, the business looked incredibly attractive: Revenue was growing Customers loved them The team was strong The future upside felt...
Every decision in your business that takes too long is costing you money. Not in some abstract, theoretical way. In a very real, compounding way. When decisions drag, opportunities get delayed. Your team hesitates. Projects lose momentum. People start second-guessing...
As a business owner, you’ve felt this tension. You want to grow. The opportunity is there. The market is there. You are willing to push. But something keeps slowing you down. And if we are being honest, it is not strategy. It is people. When I sit down with business...
As we wrap up 2025, we're grateful, inspired and fired up for what’s ahead. This year at The Greenhouse, we had the privilege of partnering with amazing leaders and teams across the region—from emerging startups to well-established legacy firms. And the numbers tell...
If you’ve led a team for any length of time, you’ve run into people issues. But here’s the truth: there are only four. That’s it. No matter how complicated a situation feels—someone underperforming, conflict on the team, lack of accountability—it all comes down...
There’s a quiet but crucial question that separates good business owners from great ones: Am I leading my organization, or am I managing it? It’s a question that sounds simple, yet when answered honestly, it can completely transform how you operate, how your team...
If you run a small or mid-sized business, you’ve probably felt it: the pressure to lower your prices just to stay competitive. Someone down the street offers a similar service for a few dollars less, and suddenly you’re in a race you never meant to join... a race to...
Q4 is a paradox for most business owners and leaders like you. It feels like the longest quarter of the year. It's full of big pushes to close out annual goals, yet it’s also the shortest, as it's consumed by holidays, budgeting, reviews and everything else that...