by Greg Martin | Jul 24, 2019 | Leadership
One of the first serial entrepreneurs that I met was Mark Collare, owner of Pro Pallet South in Troy, North Carolina. The biggest takeaway that I learned from Mark was how to look at any process and figure out where the bottleneck is. Mark is Six Sigma genius and was...
by Greg Martin | Jul 17, 2019 | Book Review
A few months ago, EO Bryan-College Station (thank you Uri Geva, Steven Sutton and Jen Zwieaker for setting this up) hosted James Lawrence aka The Iron Cowboy. James is a Guinness Book of World Record holder, and in 2015 he completed 50 Ironman distance Triathlons, in...
by Greg Martin | Jun 30, 2019 | Leadership
A few weeks ago, we talked about the conversation that I had with the CEO of a fast-growing company. You may recall, that he had recently made the difficult conversation to set accountability guidelines for one of the longest tenured employees, who also happened to be...
by Greg Martin | Jun 25, 2019 | Strategic Banking
Ok entrepreneurs, please help me out here. This week we are going to talk about a requirement that many entrepreneurs hate – providing a personal guaranty for a business loan. What I need help with is, understanding why some entrepreneurs fight so adamantly to get...
by Greg Martin | Jun 11, 2019 | Strategic Banking
“The only sure thing you can stay about a bank is that they will give you all the money in the world when times are good and the second you have a down-turn, they rip the rug out from under you.” This is one of the most painful sentiments that I have ever heard....
