Mark Abbott is the Founder and CEO of Ninety and a sought-after business leader, writer, and executive team coach. With nearly four decades of experience building, leading, investing in, and lending to small to midsize businesses, Mark is passionate about helping leaders cultivate agreements-based cultures where people work and thrive together.
It’s easy to buy into the myth that the moment your company reaches product-market fit, your job as the founder is to get out of the way. Hire operators. Trust the process. Stay out of the weeds. It’s good advice — until it isn’t. Because great founders aren’t just visionaries. They’re polymaths. ...
Competent leaders. Competent teams. Competent hires. We hear about competency all the time in business. But most of the time, when someone uses the term, they’re talking about something else: potential, credentials, personality. The word “competent” sounds legitimate, even objective. But in ...
If you want to build a great company (not just a “good enough” one, but a truly great one), you eventually run into this hard truth: Heroics don’t scale. It’s easy to celebrate the person who pulls the all-nighter, saves the client, or jumps in last-minute to close the deal. Those moments feel ...
Welcome to Founder’s Framework, offering full access to objective, informational, and researched articles on core business frameworks — aggregated into a single, organized space. This article provides a detailed overview and expert insights on the 3 Levels of Organizational Culture approach to help ...
Welcome to Founder’s Framework, offering full access to objective, informational, and researched articles on core business frameworks — aggregated into a single, organized space. This article provides a detailed overview and expert insights on the SMART approach to help you select the appropriate ...
Welcome to Founder’s Framework, offering full access to objective, informational, and researched articles on core business frameworks — aggregated into a single, organized space. This article provides a detailed overview and expert insights on the SWOT Analysis model to help leaders select the ...
