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Summit OS Architect™, helping your Empower Your Team; Execute Like Hell; and Dig a Moat around your business.

Virginia
Joined October 2010
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🐟 What does it take to build a business around quality? Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Nobu Yamanashi, President of YAMA SEAFOOD, with a focus on business growth and the seafood industry. #SeafoodIndustry #BusinessGrowth
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Sean McGraw, Founder and CEO of FOR Energy, builds scale through a simple operating backbone: org chart, depth chart, playbooks, and processes. Systems create predictable outcomes, while speed, planning, and execution keep the business moving.
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🔬 What if better decisions begin with science? Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Denis Neville, CEO of @CoreFX_Ing, with a focus on scientific thinking, evidence-based decisions, and innovation. #ScientificThinking #EvidenceBasedDecisions
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Danielle Hayden, CEO of Kickstart Accounting, helps owners move from financial foundations to empowered decisions and finally to a visionary seat with a 10-year North Star, 3-year plan, 1-year budget, and quarterly KPIs. Clear numbers create clearer choices.
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🏆 What does it take to turn preparation into results? Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Eddie DeAngelis, Founder & CEO of QualiFi, highlighting the importance of preparation and execution in achieving success. #BusinessExecution #WinningMindset
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🛒 What can shopping habits tell us about market shifts? Next on #ManagementBlueprint: David Dermer, CEO of @funkyjunque, shares his perspective on consumer behavior, purchasing trends, and changing market demand. #Ecommerce #ConsumerTrends
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Tom Pugh, Founder of Pugh Associates, built a consulting supergroup by staying in his swim lane, keeping tabs on talented peers, showing up in person, and pursuing complex opportunities years before the RFP. Experience becomes leverage when relationships are built early.
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A high-EQ business starts with how people work. @christyNHC , President of @NewHeightsComms, builds around flexibility, manageable client loads, whole-person culture, and culture-fit hiring so teams can do deeper work and clients get better partnerships.
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📊 Results tell you what happened. Case studies help explain why. Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Paul Riemer, President of the @RiemerInsurance. #CaseStudyMethod #BusinessStrategy
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Most people have speaking blind spots. David Goldberg, CEO and Voice Director of Edge Studio, says stronger communication starts with three things: optimize your words, improve your speaking patterns, and manage the nonverbals that shape how people receive you.
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Social content resonates when it feels real. @mbstylz, Founder and CEO of MB Social, uses a simple UGC framework: keep it natural, don't overproduce, use the product sensibly, use clear lighting and sound, and keep the product close. Listen first. Create second.
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🏭 A company's impact isn't measured only by what it produces. Upcoming on #ManagementBlueprint: Chris Boyd, CEO of Antebellum Manufacturing, with a theme centered on making a positive difference for others. #BusinessImpact #Manufacturing
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Crop performance is not about replacing chemistry overnight. Doug Kremer, CEO of TerraMax, Inc., focuses on integrating microbes with nutrition, water and soil health so growers can improve nutrient efficiency, lower reliance on chemistry, and prove what works with data.
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🎯 Building a business takes vision. Exiting one takes a plan. Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Steve Bederman, CEO of @NobelBiz, with a theme centered on why an exit strategy matters long before the final transition. #ExitStrategy #BusinessOwnership
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🌍 Global business crosses borders, but language, culture, and time zones can create barriers. Ahead on #ManagementBlueprint: Siva Sam, President of USXI GROUP, with a theme centered on navigating these differences. #GlobalBusiness #CrossCulturalCommunication
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Direct mail works when the economics justify it. Bradley Kugler, Founder and CEO of @directmail20, pairs physical mail with digital follow-up to multiply impressions, improve attribution, and compete where the inbox is less crowded.
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Driver recruiting should not be a fill-the-seat transaction. Randy Perkins, CEO and co-founder of FreightPro.ai, puts care and quality over quantity: profile both sides deeply, add human validation, use AI to augment the work, and let trust grow through consistency.
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🎨 What if entrepreneurship is as much an art as a business discipline? Next on #ManagementBlueprint: Jonathan Layish, Founder of Red Barn Technology Group, with a theme that frames entrepreneurship through the lens of creation. #Entrepreneurship #Founders
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🤝 When competitors look similar, trust can become the differentiator. Ahead on #ManagementBlueprint: Michael Bucalo, President and Owner of Friedrich Watkins of Tampa, with a theme centered on trust as differentiation. #Trust #BusinessStrategy
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Senior living decisions are rarely linear. Deborah Howard, CEO of @GetSLSmart, uses the Three Ws - Whether, Where, and When - to meet buyers at each stage, reduce friction, and keep nurturing until they are ready to move forward.
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