by Greg Martin | Oct 29, 2019 | Leadership
“The road to success is always under construction” – Lily Tomlin Being an entrepreneur is one of the most difficult things that you can strive to...
by Greg Martin | Sep 17, 2019 | Leadership
Have you ever created something out of nothing? I once had a friend who was a builder and he had the amazing ability to take a vision in his head and bring it into the world. Much of the time it was without plans. Rick had the gift of vision and the ability to...
by Greg Martin | Aug 20, 2019 | Leadership
I was a junior 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, I almost died. Not from an enemy sniper or improvised explosive device, no I truly almost experienced death by power point. Of course, I am joking, but I literally sat in meetings 4 hours EVERY SINGLE NIGHT for almost a...
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 | 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 | May 7, 2019 | Leadership
Have you ever had an experience that simultaneously rocked your world and provided clarity for the future? I have, and it happened last year at the Bank on Purpose (BoP) Conference hosted by Precision Lender. This conference is dedicated to the commercial banking...
