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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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2023 Is All About Relationships

2022 brought FYA many great learnings and successes, but the best gift of all has been the wonderful relationships we've built – with clients, partners, owners, entrepreneurs, and more.

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Why Company Culture is Incredibly Important

Culture plays an essential role in employee engagement and retention rates as well as recruiting new hires who share your mission or purpose.

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The Ins and Outs of Managing Up

Managing up is a skill that can be applied to every aspect of your life.

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A Framework For Giving and Receiving Feedback Effectively

Learn the hard and fast rules about giving and receiving feedback effectively.

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A Letter From Young On Why We Started Business Coaching

The Owner’s Manual: Our 4-phase framework that helps business owners run their business.

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The Power of a Financial Model

A financial model is a powerful tool for your business – it can help you make better decisions, identify opportunities, and maximize profits.

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Guide to Strategic Planning for Business Success

Whether you're just starting out as a business owner or you're a seasoned veteran, strategic planning is essential to any business.

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How To Work With a Fractional Executive

If you're a founder or a leader, you've probably struggled with the challenge of finding high quality talent at an affordable cost. Fractional executives can help solve your staffing problems while keeping costs down. But, as with any other colleague, there are certain steps that need to be taken before they can provide the value they were hired for.

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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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KPIs and the Importance of the Operational Rigor to Set and Achieve Them

If you're starting a new business or seeking to refine your existing one, it's important to have clear goals and objectives.

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The Importance of Feedback

Feedback is a powerful tool that can be used to improve performance. Learn about the importance of feedback and how to give it effectively.

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Entrepreneurship Starts and Ends With Being a Great Utility Player

The first principle of being a good entrepreneur or business leader is being a utility player. Learn more about how filling in gaps can help you succeed.

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Program Management vs. Project Management: What's the Difference Anyway?

The difference between Project Managers and Program Managers and when to hire for either role.

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KPIs and the Importance of the Operational Rigor to Set and Achieve Them

If you're starting a new business or seeking to refine your existing one, it's important to have clear goals and objectives.

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The Importance of Feedback

Feedback is a powerful tool that can be used to improve performance. Learn about the importance of feedback and how to give it effectively.

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Entrepreneurship Starts and Ends With Being a Great Utility Player

The first principle of being a good entrepreneur or business leader is being a utility player. Learn more about how filling in gaps can help you succeed.

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Program Management vs. Project Management: What's the Difference Anyway?

The difference between Project Managers and Program Managers and when to hire for either role.

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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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A Letter From Young On Why We Started Business Coaching

The Owner’s Manual: Our 4-phase framework that helps business owners run their business.

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The Power of a Financial Model

A financial model is a powerful tool for your business – it can help you make better decisions, identify opportunities, and maximize profits.

Read More
Guide to Strategic Planning for Business Success

Whether you're just starting out as a business owner or you're a seasoned veteran, strategic planning is essential to any business.

Read More
How To Work With a Fractional Executive

If you're a founder or a leader, you've probably struggled with the challenge of finding high quality talent at an affordable cost. Fractional executives can help solve your staffing problems while keeping costs down. But, as with any other colleague, there are certain steps that need to be taken before they can provide the value they were hired for.

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The Benefits of Executive Coaching Services

Whether you are a business owner looking to grow or a seasoned executive seeking guidance, there are a number of benefits to hiring an Executive Coach.

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Our Unique Approach to Business Coaching

Growing a business is hard. At FYA, we can help you overcome challenges, test new ideas, make tough decisions, and build an effective team – all while leaving time for you to do what you love.

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What is BizOps?

Scale is more about clarity and focus than output volume. In a high-growth stage company, sometimes it's difficult to find clarity beneath the shifting priorities and competing deadlines. A successful BizOps team can work cross functionally to achieve business clarity, so that the organization at-large can maintain agility and efficiency while executing complex growth strategies.

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Five Benefits of Fractional Executive Services

Thinking about using fractional executive services? Whether or not this is a viable option for you will depend on your specific situation and your company's goals. Here are five benefits of fractional executive services.

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Everything Really is Bigger in Texas!

I’m embracing change in a big way, and so am excited to share with you that I’ve moved to Texas. And just as everything is bigger in Texas, my news is also bigger than simply my move. I’m also thrilled to announce that I’m joining Cunningham Collective, a communication strategy agency, full-time as Head of Operations.

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Importance of Feedback

This is a confusing time to be alive. There is both too much information and too little information — all at the same time — a situation confounded by the impending projection that the COVID-19 curve will soon peak in much of the world.

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Earth Day 2020

Happy Earth Day! The first Earth day was in 1970 – 50 years ago. WOW, how things have changed!

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Grabbing a Tiger by the Tail

Yanked from independent life, my adult children are living with me during California’s COVID-19 shelter in place.

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Why I Made T-shirts for My Two-Month Old Company

Contact Forever Young is a new agency, two months old, in fact. And we are small (so far, just three of us). Individually, we have a lot of diverse experience and talents. But because of COVID-19, we have NEVER met face to face. We have Zoom meetings pretty much every day. We use the Slack …

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Use Your Strengths for Good

Contact In recent weeks, most of our team meetings have been spent talking about the horrible murders of George Floyd, Breonna Tayler, and Ahmaud Arbery and the ensuing protests and peace marches, here in America and abroad. Our team ardently supports civil rights. We want to do something while not being tone deaf. We’ve made …

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How Hungry Are You? My Father’s Day Reflections

Contact How Hungry Are You? My Father’s Day Reflection I am very driven. I love to solve problems. I hate to lose. My father taught

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A Graduate’s Self Exploration

Contact Photo Credits: @arbohlen Imagine this, you are a college senior about to graduate and enter the workforce. You did it; you completed 17 years

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Chasing Amy: ENACT a Plan

Contact Chasing Amy: ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I’m a lucky guy. I married the love of my life – Amy. This month –

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Business Lessons from Science Fiction

Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction – digital space, if you will! “Ender’s Game” is my all-time favorite book. Written by

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How Fried Rice is Like a Great Business

Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is the perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it’s

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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane

Contact When I’m not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid

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KPIs and the Importance of the Operational Rigor to Set and Achieve Them

If you're starting a new business or seeking to refine your existing one, it's important to have clear goals and objectives.

Read More
The Importance of Feedback

Feedback is a powerful tool that can be used to improve performance. Learn about the importance of feedback and how to give it effectively.

Read More
Entrepreneurship Starts and Ends With Being a Great Utility Player

The first principle of being a good entrepreneur or business leader is being a utility player. Learn more about how filling in gaps can help you succeed.

Read More
Program Management vs. Project Management: What's the Difference Anyway?

The difference between Project Managers and Program Managers and when to hire for either role.

Read More
Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
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How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
Read More
Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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Get Your Strategy in the Fast Lane
Contact When I'm not on BART or my bike, I drive a hybrid. Good for the environment. Good for my pocketbook. But, before my hybrid
Read More
How Fired Rice is Like a Great Business
Contact How Fried Rice is like a Great Business Fried rice is he perfect food. There are so many ways to make it and it's
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Business Lessons from Science Fiction
Contact Journey with me into the world of science fiction - digital space, if you will! "Ender's Game" is my all-time favorite book. Written by
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Chasing Amy : ENACT a Plan
Contact Chasing Amy:ENACT a Plan Photo Credits: @sithappy I'm a lucky guy. I married the love of my life - Amy This month -
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