My Business On Purpose

This week marks the launch of the Business On Purpose annual PREP WEEK for clients.  Each year at the beginning of November, we guide each of our heroic business owners through a series of repeatable, predictable, and meaningful (RPM) steps to help bring the clarity they need to get their business in shape for the coming year. Each year brings its own swirling mix of headwinds and tailwinds, and the business must be properly prepared and maintained in order to handle the predictable and unpredictable chaos that will come. There are eight steps that we guide our owners through to equip them and their teams with the foundation to lean into their mission. First, every business owner (including me) will go review and update their vision story.  The vision story is a seven-category outline inviting the owners to detail what the future snapshot of their business looks like and enables their team to have a clear picture of what they are pushing towards. The Proverb is self-evident, “where there is no vision, people