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

  • Commit to Agreements, Not Expectations

    Imagine it’s your third week on the job. You’re meeting with your team leader about a big project with rapidly approaching milestones, and you learn she’s very impressed with your progress. So much so, in fact, she’d like you to be the project lead ...

  • What We Mean When We Say We’re “Doing Our Best”

    What does it mean to do our best? When we say, “I did my best,” we reveal our contextual understanding, decision-making processes, and ability to turn expectations into agreements.

  • Building Great on Purpose

    One of the things I’ve learned over decades as a company builder, investor, board member, and coach is that most organizations are built accidentally. And by that, I mean that they weren’t built purposely.