Meet the Author:
Mark Abbott

Mark Abbott is the Visionary/Founder of Ninety and a sought-after business leader, writer, and executive team coach. With nearly four decades of experience with early-stage, small, and midsize companies as a lender, investor, and business builder, his passion centers on helping people build extraordinarily productive, humane, and resilient organizations. Mark has helped successfully build, lead, and invest in dozens of organizations.

Articles by Mark Abbott

  • The 9 Ways We Seek to Matter: Insights from the Enneagram

    I deeply believe that one of the keys to being a successful leader is self and others awareness. We leverage a number of assessments, tools, and frameworks at Ninety to better understand what we believe are our innate preferences. Today, I want to go a ...

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    Vision Statement: What It Is… and What We Teach at Ninety

    A vision statement is commonly seen as a carefully constructed collection of words that, once neatly strung together, represents what a company aspires to achieve five to ten years down the road, or even longer. At Ninety, however, we don't subscribe to ...

  • Strategic Leadership: Navigate the 90/80/70/60/50% Principle for Maximum Impact

    In the dynamic landscape of organizational leadership and development, Founders/CEOs play a pivotal role in setting the vision and strategic direction for their companies. The 90/80/70/60/50 principle offers a guiding framework for how everyone from the ...