One theme kept coming up in my last conversations with founders in construction and trades:
They’re not short on work they’re short on visibility. Revenue looks strong, but margin tells a
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Tag: Margins
How to spot a leadership gap in ten minutes. You don’t need a 360 review to spot a leadership gap.
You just need to look at how people behave when no one’s watching. → Are meetings filled with
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Your Best Player Is Costing You Margin Your best performer might not be the problem, but the way you’ve built around them could be.
When everything bends to one person’s success, systems break.
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How to Stop Cash Flow Pressure From Bleeding You Dry. Cash flow pressure is real. Every day you delay, you bleed more cash. Sloppy bids, missed invoices, and dragged-out projects take more than they
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Why “We’re Not Ready” is the Most Expensive Line in Business “We’re not ready” sounds safe. But it is the most expensive sentence an owner can say. The fix? Stop asking if you’re ready.
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You don’t get control by waiting for things to slow down. Too many founders stall with this line: “We’ll put systems in when things lighten up.”
Wrong move. 🚨 Busy seasons expose
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The cost of guessing: Missed targets. Guesswork feels fast until you see the bill.
Every “let’s try this” without data, alignment, or accountability compounds into missed targets, wasted time,
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Don’t scale broke. Fix your cost structure first. Most businesses don’t fail because they can’t sell, they fail because they scale on a broken foundation.
Every hire, every campaign, every
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Obsidian Thorne Launches “Referral Pipeline” – A Game Changing Client Growth Tool Los Angeles, CA - November 7, 2025 - Obsidian Thorne, a leader in business growth and
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Scale fast, skip rework. The five step SOP that holds the weight. Fast growth doesn’t break companies confusion does.
When systems can’t carry the load, speed turns into rework, burnout, and
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