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You set the standards: redefining success for your business (and yourself)
We’ve talked about how business never stops. We’ve talked about how you need to know when you should. We’ve explored what it means to lead through seasons of growth, turnover, and team transitions. But something just as critical is defining success on your terms. Because that’s just as important as…
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How many direct reports is the right amount?
If you’re a small business owner, you became a leader the moment you hired your first person. You might not have intended to add “leader” to your title, but here you are. And whether you’re managing employees or outsourcing to contractors, leading people requires emotional energy, time, and bandwidth. So…
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How to choose your hiring team
Why Every Hiring Process Needs One Decision Maker Choosing the right people for your business is the most important thing you will do. So you might think that you need a team to get it right. Getting buy-in is a real thing, but it’s also a huge risk if not…
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Not everyone’s coming with you
When you make a big change in your business—whether it’s scaling up, adding infrastructure, hiring leadership, or evolving into a version of the company you’ve been building toward—there will be disruption. And not the bad kind. Disruption is not failure. It’s growth—with all the friction and stretch marks that come…
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How to fire gracefully
How to Let Someone Go Without Losing Yourself (or Your Team’s Trust) If you’ve built your business with care, firing someone might feel like the hardest thing you’ll ever do. You’ve built relationships. You’ve invested in people. And if you’re like most small business owners, you care deeply about both…
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Bringing people with you: Why promotions and cross-promotions matter
One of the biggest blind spots in growing a business is treating your team like a fixed puzzle—filling the open spaces and expecting nothing to shift. But people aren’t puzzle pieces. They’re living, evolving, and looking for momentum. In fact, the movement in your business might be what attracted them…
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Required vs. preferred experience—it’s not what you think
We treat experience like it’s math. Years on paper. Roles on a resume. Metrics in a bullet list. But experience isn’t math. It’s a story. And like any story, you have to read between the lines to get the whole thing. When you think about hiring someone with experience for…
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Why you need grace in resume screening
Let me guess… You want to post your job, be flooded with magical resumes, and feel like you’ve got a golden stack to sift through—each one better than the last. You want that “I’ll know it when I see it” moment. You want to grab the perfect resume, make the…
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Why I don’t follow timelines in hiring
You’ve probably heard it—or maybe said it yourself: “We need someone in this seat by the end of the month.” And while that sounds reasonable, real alignment rarely happens on a deadline. Now, I love a good timeline. I love a milestone to work toward, and I understand the very…
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The Untapped Power of employee referrals
If you’re hiring for fit above all else, you’re going to build something rare: a wonderfully cohesive group of people that, on the surface, may look very different—but at their cores, are magnetically similar. Their skill sets are complementary. They collaborate with ease. And when things get tough, they show…
