When Collaboration Becomes the Obvious Next Step
Launching a new book is always a milestone.
Doing it for the first time with my Second in Command made it something else entirely.
After more than a decade working side by side, Meridith Kuba and I turned this release, Grandma’s Business Secrets, into a natural extension of the partnership we had already built.
This was not about starting something new.
It was about capturing what had already been working for years.
A Decade of Shared Context on the Page
Long term partnerships do not survive on structure or intention alone.
They last because, over time, execution replaces explanation.
Decisions happen faster.
Ideas do not need defending.
Trust eliminates friction.
When we sat down to write this book, that shared context was already there. The pages moved forward the same way our companies always had, through trust, momentum, and a single vision carried by two leaders operating in sync.
Why Writing This Book Was Different
This is my seventh book, and I have co authored before.
What changed this time was not experience. It was depth.
Writing with Meridith meant working with someone who did not need interpretation. Someone who understands how ideas move from vision to execution. Someone who cares as much about the outcome as I do, and sometimes more.
That level of alignment accelerates everything.
Ideas moved faster. Concepts went further. The work itself became sharper.
Why Grandma’s Business Secrets Focuses on What Lasts
Grandma’s Business Secrets is intentionally simple.
It focuses on leadership and business fundamentals that stand the test of time, the kind of principles that quietly outperform trends, tactics, and theories.
The book does not chase what is new.
It reinforces what works.
In many cases, the basics matter more than what formal business education prioritizes. Clarity, consistency, and execution will always outperform complexity.
Our decade long partnership reinforced that lesson again and again. Clarity is what truly scales.
The Bottom Line
This book is more than a collaboration.
It is the result of ten years spent removing friction instead of creating it.
For leaders, the takeaway is simple. Strong Second in Command relationships do not just scale companies. They elevate the quality of the work itself.
Grandma’s Business Secrets is now available.
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