Meet the Author:
Mark Abbott

Mark Abbott is the Visionary/Founder of Ninety and a sought-after business leader, writer, and executive team coach. With nearly four decades of experience with early-stage, small, and midsize companies as a lender, investor, and business builder, his passion centers on helping people build extraordinarily productive, humane, and resilient organizations. Mark has helped successfully build, lead, and invest in dozens of organizations.

Articles by Mark Abbott

  • Three Ninety team members are having a discussion at a coffee shop.

    5 Effective Ways to Promote Well-Being and Increase Retention

    Every founder/CEO wants their organization to thrive. But to climb the Stages of Development from survival to profitability, growth, and stewardship, we'll need to place the right people in the right seats — and create an environment where they'll love ...

  • What Is Business Vision: The Core of Strategy and Growth

    If you’re an ambitious founder/CEO, you’re driven to build something bigger than yourself. Your vision is at the core of your business’s strategy and growth; it’s not just where you want to go, but who you want to be and how you plan to get from here to ...

  • Blog co-author Mark Abbott standing atop a rock formation, looking into the distance.

    Vision Statement: What It Is… and What We Teach at Ninety

    A vision statement is commonly seen as a carefully constructed collection of words that, once neatly strung together, represents what a company aspires to achieve 5–10 years down the road, or even longer. At Ninety, however, we don't subscribe to the ...