Lately, a lot of Founders I talk to mention they are worried about what they don’t know they don’t know.

While there are lots of sources of Founder stress, they break down into four buckets, each with an underlying trigger.

What Visionary Founders can do to stay in their happy place and start mastering operational excellence - even when they aren’t wired for it.

Visionary Founders often overlook the essential work that will unlock scale.

If you are feeling stuck, you may have just hit an Invisible Wall.

People are familiar with the MVP’s concept. Here’s how to apply that principal to learn at speed.

What Stage is your company in? Maybe the better question is: “What Phase is your company in?”

Facing hard situations with grace and humanity and doing what needs to be done is where Founders level up.

When you understand that learning speed determines your pace of growth, you’ll start looking at your business in a whole new way.

How anchoring to your impact can beat the overwhelm.

Managing stress and burnout has been the most identified challenge in my Founder Type Quiz. Here’s some help.

Scaling your business is a lot easier when you know who you really need.

What happens when you take the 80/20 rule to the next level.

I’ve been studying Founders for the past couple decades. I’ve identified four distinct Founder Types.

The most successful Founders share one trait. They figure out what handful of things will move them forward the fastest and then ruthlessly block everything else out.

Losing a Co-Founder or a trusted key team member can be one of the more traumatic events to navigate as a Founder. Here’s what to do.

The single biggest challenge in business planning is that there is NO SINGLE biggest business planning challenge.

With the new year comes fresh enthusiasm, a clean slate, and ambitions for the new year. Here are 5 Reasons why you won’t have the year you want.

I was originally thinking of writing a big ‘year that was’ recap and review. But in the name of Ruthless Simplicity, I’ve just decided to share the Single Biggest Lesson I learned in 2020.

As we enter the final weeks of 2020, I’d like to express gratitude for this year. I’m sure this sounds crazy.

This is the time of year where next year’s success starts. Getting your Mission/Vision/Impact and Organizational Goals defined is key to nailing 2021.

This is the time of year where next year’s success starts. If you are going to nail 2021, then you need to go into the New Year already knowing what success looks like and what your plan is to get there.

There’s one mindset shift that can change the trajectory of your business.

The real challenge in time management is actually figuring out what’s most important.

It seems that no matter what kind of abundance shows up, I can always find my way to a feeling of scarcity.

In our rush to fix things, we often end up solving the wrong problem. Here’s how to be sure you are working the right problem.

Over the last 10 days, I've had 4-5 conversations with folks working through Co-Founder issues. Here are three things that will help.

Accountability conversations can be uncomfortable for Founders, managers end employees - but they don’t have to be.

Nobody teaches founders how accountability actually works.

Too many businesses know their mission, but don't know their meaning. And that makes all the difference.

In order to be the company that grows 2-3x, you have to start behaving like the company that has already grown 2-3x.

B2B companies are making some key mistakes when it comes to sales and sales people.

People aren't totally happy with their marketing. But they don't know exactly why.

What to do when the business you have isn't the one you want.

Too often rebrands don't translate into meaningful sales lift. Here's how to fix that.

You invested time and money in marketing automation - where are the results?

Do you feel like you spend a ton of time and effort to create great content, only to just get a pat on the back?

When it comes to scaling revenue, simplicity is the gateway to reliability

What's your BOSS Metric? (Hint: It's Not Revenue!)

Sometimes stuff goes very wrong. Here's how to turn a service fail into a win.

Stop thinking about creating content and start focusing on creating journeys.

Clockwork Execution is one of the keys to high performance. Here's how to make it happen.

Unleash the incredible power of asking better questions.

Every Rocket Ship company follows these five rules.

In times of crisis, challenge and uncertainty, there’s an exercise I like to work through that starts with one simple question: “What’s True?”

“Janice, I’m freaking out.” It was fall of 2009 and I was on my phone pacing around the parking lot outside Revelation’s office in Southeast Portland. A competitor company that had launched right around the same time as Revelation had announced that they had raised...

Continuing my series of Meditations for Entrepreneurs with this quote that speaks to persistent challenges and questions asked the wrong way.