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I was leaving a successful company that I had launched with a group of friends twelve years earlier, but I couldn’t discuss it openly with the employees since many critical details were still being de...

“Our company does not exist to hit an earnings per share target.”

We were emerging from a terrible 2008, and I was skeptical about the outside CEO the board had hired to run the company. First Choice...

How do you get someone to give your technology platform another shot after they’ve already convinced themselves that it isn’t good enough?

At First Choice Power (FCP), we had the best technology in t...

Well, it’s 3:00 o’clock, so you have about five hours to convince me this cannot work. Until you successfully demonstrate that we cannot combine all seven of our existing online experiences into one m...

I heard the car horn and the screeching brakes. Then I looked over just in time to see that I was about to be t-boned by someone from the cross traffic at an intersection.

My life didn’t flash before...

I couldn’t figure out why my Wednesday morning alarm sounded just like my ringtone.

Ring, ring.
Ring, ring.

I cleared my eyes to see the clock.

3:50 am.

Then I grabbed the phone. Oh wow, this was ...

“I can’t believe your team is attempting to automate part of my job. Meet me in the parking lot after work, and I’ll show you what I think of your plan.”

I was reading an email invitation to an after...

“I don’t get it. Why would Undivided Life purchase a construction company?”

That is the second most common response when people hear that Undivided Life acquired McKnight Construction. The other resp...

I never expected to see his name on the calendar when the team was preparing for my two-day marathon test of a new concept we called Open Interviews. Our initial post announcing that anyone could book...

“You’re telling me that I get access to Undivided Life's entire lineup of executive firepower while only paying the cost of a fractional executive?”

Yup.

When we first started meeting with potential...

In a competitive situation, it’s important to be the best in at least one of the main areas of comparison – speed, service, or price.

In the early 2000s, our energy company was near the bottom in eve...

While raising seven young kids, including an infant, and tackling our family's daily medical needs, we’ve added a new layer of adventure to the mix—miniature Donkeys.

Introducing Daisy and Tater.

In...

The first time I read Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, I was struck by the practical ways an organization can improve its overall culture as it moves from...

Being named one of the “best places to work” isn’t about the award.

It’s about the reality.

While I was at the last company I co-founded before Undivided Life, we created a high-performance, people-cent...

By now, we are all familiar with concepts like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Anything as a Service (XaaS). The phrase “as a service (aaS)” refers to a business model ...

Cody Slape joins Undivided Life as the company’s Chief Optimizer.

October 2, 2023

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Only nine months into the launch of Undivided Life, the demand for the company’s services has led ...

Leaders are Finally LISTENING

The corporate world has started to catch on to the fact that intentional culture building can lead to a thriving organization where a highly engaged team can reduce cost...