Allied Executives Blog

Expenses Always Precede Growth 

There are many differences between our early growth stage clients and enterprise ones.  One major one is their comfort level with re-investing in the business and delaying profit.  And that makes sense.  As a founder you put in the long hours and take on the risk.  You ...

Consistency is Its Own Form of Greatness

This is another favorite lesson and reminder – also picked up from James Clear and his amazing book Atomic Habits.  I see reminders of this lesson every month within our peer groups through some of the amazing success stories I get to sit shotgun for. 

Essentia ...

Change Sucks, But Irrelevance Is Worse 

I get very concerned when I hear a colleague or client say, “It's how we’ve always done it.”  It’s a gateway drug to irrelevance. 

Why do we say it? Because change is uncomfortable. It feels risky, like stepping off a ledge without knowing what's below. But ...

Bad Apples Make Bad Seeds

It is difficult to let go of a caustic high performer, especially in a small business where productivity is paramount.

But people underestimate how much lousy behavior spreads. It’s comforting to think it’s isolated—a bad apple in a group, a single exception. But bad apples ...

Address Behaviors, Not People

I often hear the mantra, “Behind most issues is a person.”  I think that is miscast.

Yes, when something goes wrong, the instinct is often to point at a person. "So and so is the problem," we think, or worse, say. It feels satisfying, as if we've identified the root cause ...