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 Power of an Agreements-Based Culture

    In the realm of organizational development and leadership, the concept of an agreements-based culture represents a profound shift from traditional command-and-control models to a framework built on trust, accountability, and mutual respect. This cultural ...

  • 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 ...