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.
Resources by Mark Abbott
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Brief
Concepts, Tools, and Disciplines
Learn how concepts, tools, and disciplines can improve work throughout your organization to help your teams focus, align, and thrive.
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Tool, Assessment
Stages of Development Assessment
Measure your company’s stage of development with Ninety’s innovative 10-question assessment.
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Brief, Structure
Tiger Teams
Learn how a Tiger Team can help you tackle your organization’s biggest initiatives by breaking down silos and supercharging ...
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Brief, Tool
Assessments Tool
Unlock your team's potential with Ninety's Assessments tool — gathering feedback, measuring growth, and identifying areas of improvement.
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Brief, Meetings
Raise, Discuss, Resolve (RDR)
Learn all about raise, discuss, and resolve (RDR), our process for solving Issues during a variety of meetings.
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Brief, Core Resource
Stages of Development
This brief describes the basic concept of the Stages of Development, a meta-framework for measuring an organization’s growth.
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Brief, People
Competency, Commitment, and Capacity
Learn how to determine fitness for a Seat by analyzing the competency, commitment, and capacity (CCC) the Seat demands.
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Brief, People, Lead, Agree, Coach
Hard Conversations
Learn how approaching hard conversations in a truthful, specific, and positive manner helps foster a high-trust environment.
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Guide, Meetings
On Weekly Team Meetings
Every team should have a dedicated structure to their weekly meeting — this guide shows you how.
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Brief, People, Structure
Right Person, Right Seat
The concept of Right Person, Right Seat emphasizes the importance of placing individuals in roles that align with their values, skills, and ...
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Brief, Tool, Structure
Org Chart
Learn more about how Ninety's Org Chart tool helps you establish clear roles, accountabilities, and responsibilities.
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Brief, Tool, Vision
Vision
Learn how our Vision tool enables you to document your Core Values, Compelling Why, Ideal Customer, Compelling Value Proposition, goals, ...
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Data, Brief
Scorecard
Ninety’s Data tool allows every team to create a personalized Scorecard showing them the data they need to evaluate progress and find areas ...
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Brief, Meetings
Vision and Goals Setting Meetings
The Vision and Goal Setting Meetings help companies plan their vision and set goals to turn that into reality.
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Brief, Vision, Customer
Compelling Value Proposition
We’ve identified four Compelling Value Propositions that great companies use to serve their Ideal Customers and separate themselves from ...
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Brief, Enterprise Value
Enterprise Value
This brief offers an overview of Enterprise Value, one of the 9 Core Competencies of great organizations.
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Brief, Meetings
State of the Company Meetings
Learn how holding transparent, informational State of the Company Meetings once a quarter builds up trust throughout your organization.
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Data, Brief
Data
This brief introduces Data as one of the 9 Core Competencies of running a great company.
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Brief, Tool, Vision
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)
Learn how a yearly SWOT analysis allows you to perform a self-evaluation of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of your ...
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Brief, Meetings
Annual Planning Meetings
This brief provides a concise overview of how to run impactful Annual Planning Meetings (APMs).
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Brief, Meetings
Quarterly Planning Meetings
Learn the importance of reviewing the previous 90 days to assess progress on goals, celebrate achievements, and discuss long-term Issues.
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Brief, Lead, Agree, Coach
Lead, Agree, Coach
The Lead, Agree, Coach framework highlights the importance of developing high-trust relationships and focusing on leading and coaching team ...
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Brief, Meetings
Quarterly Discussions
Learn how regular and purposeful Quarterly Discussions are essential to the growth and development of relationships between leaders and ...
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Guide, Core Resource
On Ninety
Discover who we are, what we believe, and why we’re so passionate about helping our customers.
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Tool, Assessment
Baseline Assessment
We created the Baseline Assessment to help leadership team members understand their organization's current proficiencies across the 9 Core ...
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Guide, Tool, Core Resource
Getting Up and Running on Ninety
This guide helps you assess whether or not Ninety is right for your organization and provides four paths to get up and running on our ...
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Guide, Structure
On Organizational Structure
Uncover research-based methods for dramatically improving your organization through a competencies-based approach to structure.
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Tool, Assessment
Org Fitness Review
We recommend all teams take the Org Fitness Review every quarter or at least annually to assess their growth across the 9 Core Competencies.
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Guide, Core Resource
On 9 Core Competencies
The 9 Core Competencies are our time-tested lens for assessing the strength of your company-building proficiency.
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Guide, Lead, Agree, Coach
On Lead, Agree, Coach (LAC)
This in-depth guide teaches the Lead, Agree, Coach framework for leadership, which states that anyone who heads a team must use agreements, ...
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Brief, Goals
Compelling and Audacious Goals
Compelling and Audacious Goals (CAGs) are bold, ambitious objectives that unite and inspire organizations to achieve greatness.
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Brief, Goals
Rocks
Discover how having your team members own Rocks that are aligned with your long-term goals keeps the entire organization working toward ...
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Data, Guide
On Data
Explore how to track and analyze data with Scorecards in our Data tool.
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Guide, Meetings
On Quarterly Planning Meetings
The On Quarterly Planning Meetings Guide extensively details how to run a quarterly meeting.
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Guide, Core Resource
On Business Operating Systems
This guide covers the ins and outs of Business Operating Systems (BOSs), including descriptions of several popular BOSs in use today.
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Guide, Meetings
On Annual Planning Meetings
Annual Planning Meetings keep us on track as we build, operate, and scale — this guide teaches you how.
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Guide, Core Resource
On BOS Coaches
This guide covers who Business Operating Systems coaches are, what they do, and how they help — and offers suggestions to see if engaging ...
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Guide, Core Resource
On Stages of Development
This guide introduces and thoroughly examines the five Stages of Development businesses go through on their way to becoming thriving ...
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Guide, Core Resource
The New Age of Work
This guide covers many of our philosophies surrounding work — its value, future, and meaning.
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Workbook, Vision
Vision Builders Workbook
Extensive resources, insights, and worksheets to document your organization’s Vision.
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Brief, Meetings
Weekly Team Meetings
Purposeful Weekly Team Meetings are so important to how we operate — this brief describes the seven sections of our default weekly meetings ...
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Brief, Meetings, Tool
Issues
This brief provides an overview of our Issues tool, including tips for identifying and resolving key Issues — ideas, opportunities, or ...
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Brief, Tool
To-Dos
The To-Dos tool captures tasks from your meetings, Rocks, Issues, and Scorecard. This brief provides a basic overview of the tool.
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Brief, Core Resource
Business Operating System (BOS)
This brief provides an overview of the five categories of BOSs and offers some steps to take for organizations looking to upgrade their BOS.
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Brief, People, Vision
Core Values
Core Values form one of the primary Focus Filters used to keep organizations on track to turn their Vision into reality.