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Regine Bonneau |  Founder and CEO, RB Advisory, LLC

"The Founder’s Framework newsletter is one of the most insighftul pieces of information I read weekly. It’s powerful, succinct, and practical. It packs a punch in just a few minutes and motivates me to be a better leader. Thank you very much for taking the time to give us engaging, helpful content."

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Steve Pirie-Nally |  Co-Founder, Evolve X

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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.

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4 Steps to Better Leadership Decisions

I’ve sat in a lot of leadership team meetings over the years, and after a while, you start to notice that the conversations that matter most rarely begin with a neat, well-defined issue. They usually start with something small. Something that wasn’t on the agenda to begin with: a comment from a ...

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How Great Teams Turn Different Perspectives Into Better Decisions

A leadership team can sit through the same meeting, look at the same numbers, hear the same customer feedback, and leave carrying very different conclusions about what just happened. I see it all the time. And it doesn’t happen because some people weren’t paying attention or because anyone on the ...

What Great Leadership Teams Do Before Making Decisions

By the time a leadership team is ready to make a call, the most important work has usually already happened. Most people talk about leadership teams as if their main job is decision-making. And sure, strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and direction matter a lot. But starting there misses something ...

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3 Levels of Organizational Culture: Aligning Core Values with Actual Practice

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 ...

The SMART Framework: How to Set Better Business Goals

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 ...

The SWOT Analysis and Strategic Planning Framework

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 ...

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