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‘Grit’ is not an accident as a company name. Grit Marketing chose it deliberately, building an organizational identity around a concept that psychologists have identified as one of the most powerful predictors of long-term success: the combination of passion and perseverance that enables people to persist toward meaningful goals through difficulty and setback. Research on […]
Sustainable energy investment requires patience that many financial frameworks do not accommodate well. The technology development cycles are long, the capital requirements are substantial, and the path to commercial scale involves regulatory, engineering, and market development challenges that can extend over many years before financial returns materialize. Yazan Al Homsi has engaged with this investment […]
The growth story of Priority Commerce under Thomas Priore’s leadership is one of the more instructive case studies in how a payments company can expand from a focused regional operation to a nationally recognized commerce technology platform. The company’s development has involved organic growth in its core merchant services businesses, strategic expansion into adjacent payment […]
The trajectory of Germany’s energy market points toward a future that looks very much like what PLAN B NET ZERO has been building: digital, renewable, consumer-centric, and integrated into the broader smart home ecosystem. The company has not been following a market trend — it has been anticipating one, positioning itself ahead of the curve […]
In American sports, we expect the referee to be neutral. The game makes no sense otherwise. The scoreboard does not take sides. The rules apply equally. John Chachas argues in Inkl that American television journalism has abandoned that neutrality, and the consequences for democracy are harder to reverse than a bad call in the fourth […]
How Glenn Lurie’s Synchronoss Tenure Shapes His Approach to AI Investment at Stormbreaker Ventures When Glenn Lurie stepped into the role of CEO at Synchronoss Technologies, he inherited a company at a pivotal moment in the mobile technology landscape. The experience he accumulated during that tenure — navigating enterprise software challenges, managing complex carrier relationships, […]
Not many companies in the oil and gas sector can point to more than 50 years of continuous operation and a client base that keeps coming back. Gulf Coast Western can. Founded in 1970 by Thomas Fleeger, the firm has grown from a Texas-focused operation into a multi-state exploration company while holding onto the principles […]
The concept of the player-coach is familiar in sports, but it translates to business in meaningful ways. Michael Polk uses that framing to describe what senior executives must become when they move from large public companies to smaller private ones. As CEO of Implus LLC, a fitness accessories portfolio company, Polk found that the role […]
When a process is not working, the instinct in most organizations is to add something: new software, an additional approval layer, a fresh procedure, a task force. Hassan Jameel, Vice Chairman, Saudi Arabia, of Abdul Latif Jameel, learned a different approach during his time working in Toyota’s kaizen division in Japan in 2004. His supervisor’s […]
The conventional wisdom about top-tier executives is that bigger is always better bigger company, bigger title, bigger platform. Michael Polk’s career in recent years pushes back on that notion. After leading Newell Brands as CEO through a period of significant expansion, Polk transitioned into a role at Implus LLC, a private fitness accessories company. He […]
