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What High-Performing Owners Do Differently in a Down Market
How High-Performing Owners Operate in a Down Market. Down markets have a way of exposing things. Not just weak balance sheets or overextended growth plans, but leadership habits that were quietly propped up by good conditions. When markets are strong, almost everyone looks competent. Demand covers mistakes. Growth hides inefficiencies. Momentum forgives poor decisions. In those environments, it’s hard to tell whether performance is coming from skill or simply from timing. A d
Jan 55 min read


If You’re Not Happy with This Year, Start Next Year Now! And If You Are, Build on It
The calendar says the year is almost over. Most people treat that as permission to slow down. To ease up. To “wrap things up.” But the truth is simple: your business doesn’t care what the calendar says. There is no finish line in business. There’s only carryover. How you finish one year is how you start the next. And what you do in the final quarter determines whether you enter January in motion or trying to make up ground. The fourth quarter is not the end of the year.

Dan Cholewa
Oct 24, 20256 min read


The Five Questions Every One Page Plan Must Answer. How to Use AI to Get There
Most entrepreneurs waste weeks writing business plans that end up sitting in a drawer. Pages of goals, paragraphs of vision statements, endless bullet points that never get used. The truth is that most business owners do not need a 40-page binder. They need one page that forces clarity, cuts out the fluff, and answers the only questions that matter. If your plan cannot fit on one page, you will not use it. And if you do not use it, you are leading blind. Here are the five

Dan Cholewa
Oct 14, 20253 min read


Stop Guessing. Build a Dashboard That Runs Your Business
Most business owners are flying blind. They tell themselves they are keeping track of things, but really they are guessing. They celebrate closings and deposits, but they have no clear system to see whether their business is growing, shrinking, or bleeding out. Here is the truth. If you do not have a dashboard that shows you the right numbers in one place, you are not running a business. You are reacting to one. Why a Business Dashboard Changes Everything A dashboard is n

Dan Cholewa
Oct 6, 20254 min read
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