Darryl Treadwell 
Something is wrong in your business. Output is inconsistent. The same mistakes keep happening. Your team seems capable, but the results say otherwise. Before you spend money on training, fire someone, or redesign your org chart, there is one question worth answering first: is this a people problem vs process problem business leaders face, or … Read more
You didn’t see it coming. A solid employee – one you counted on, one who knew the work handed in a notice. You offered more money. They thanked you and left anyway. Or maybe they took the increase and were gone three months later. Owners who have been through it all ask the same question: … Read more
You hired managers so you could stop making every decision. But somehow, the decisions keep coming back to you. A pricing question. A scheduling conflict. A customer complaint that your team lead doesn’t feel empowered to resolve. Managers escalating decisions to owner is one of the most common complaints from small business owners and one … Read more
You have a gap on the team. Someone left, workload is building, and the instinct is to write a job description and get it posted. That instinct is understandable. But before you post another job ad, there are five questions to ask before hiring that could save you a significant amount of time, money, and … Read more
You spent weeks recruiting. You conducted multiple rounds of interviews. You made an offer, negotiated, and finally got a yes. Six weeks later, the person is gone. Understanding why new employees leave in first 90 days is not complicated once you look at the data. Enboarder’s 2025 HR Leader Survey, based on responses from 1,000 … Read more
When a team is not performing the way you need it to, the instinct is often to look outside the organization. Post a job, bring in fresh talent, start over with someone who already has the skills. It feels like the fastest fix. In many cases it is also the most expensive one — and … Read more
Growth creates a problem most business owners do not see coming. When a company is small, structure is barely necessary. The owner knows everything, decisions move quickly, and the team figures things out as they go. That works, right up until it does not. At some point, what got you here starts getting in the … Read more
Most business leaders do not have a performance problem. They have a pattern problem. The same issues keep coming back — missed deadlines, inconsistent output, team members who need constant direction, results that depend entirely on who is having a good week. You address it, things improve briefly, and then the pattern returns. Somewhere in … Read more
