Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – We bleed One Human Family. I was inspired to write about this because of Samantha’s FB post last week. Thanks for your raw and heartfelt message, Samantha, it was awesome to read. Back around 2011 or 2012 (somebody correct me here) we began, as a group, to work … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 6/22/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – If you see something below the standard and do nothing, then you set the new standard. Our actions speak louder than any words we’ve ever hung on a wall. They speak louder than anything we’ve ever said out loud and they are more … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 6/15/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Can we have a performance culture AND a caring culture? Not only are we able to have both a caring and a performance culture that simultaneously coexist, we must make sure these two critical elements are more robust and apparent than ever. As we begin … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 6/8/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Focus on the road, not the wall. (From The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz) When someone learns how to drive a race car, one of the first lessons taught is that when you are going around a curve at 200 mph, … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 5/25/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Awaken. The leaves on the trees came out last week. I love this very short, but specific time of the season because it’s the official sign that winter is over and spring is finally here. The bushes and trees seem to open their … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 5/18/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Friends, I break from my usual format this week to cover just two topics. Culture – Radical Communication. Radical Transparency. It’s crazy how much can change is a week. Last week our messaging was “we’re not doing anything different.” This week things will have … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week – 3/16/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – We’re kid welcoming, but we’re not kid friendly. This topic was brought up in Book Club last week and it made me think about why we’ve always been welcoming of families, but not necessarily family friendly. From the beginning, we’ve always been a … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider this Week 3/9/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week. Culture –Our number one driver of growth is repeat customers and word of mouth. It’s no secret that we don’t advertise or do much traditional marketing. The only time you’ll see us in a newspaper or magazine is when we win an award and … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider this Week 3/2/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – We are what we stand up for. When we made the decision to be a “values-led” company, it didn’t take us long to figure out what our core values were. For a company that’s been around for a while, like ours, those … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…2/24/20 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! A quick note – I just finished archiving all my previous 5 Things entries and they can be found at www.mikeysorboro.com. In the future, I plan to make these much more searchable, but for now they’re all posted chronologically. Culture – What is our competition? This may sound … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…2/17/20 →