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How One Company Engineered a Million-Dollar Turnaround
Learn how a company transformed from barely profitable to a high-performing, cash-generating operation without relying on revenue growth in just 12–18 months.

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Do You Really Need an Attorney? A Smarter Legal Model for Growing Businesses
In this Profitability Playbook episode, Brandon Gray and Mike Maxson are joined by Danielle Laughlin of SAGE Business Counsel to challenge the traditional ways business owners think about legal support.

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3 min read


Sleepless Nights: What’s Really Keeping Entrepreneurs Up Right Now
Explore the concerns that are keeping entrepreneurs up at night and how to navigate them.

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3 min read


Understanding Labor Efficiency Ratios (LER): The Labor Metrics That Decide Whether You Win or Stall
Learn how you can use three labor efficiency ratios (LERs) to understand your business health and grow.

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2 min read


The Great Labor Reset: How Owners Should Think About Labor Right Now
Learn how The Great Labor Reset is impacting the labor environment and shaping profitability.

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2 min read


When Growth Isn’t Enough: The New Reality of Profitability
Growing revenue has become increasingly hard, not due to motivation, sales, or pricing, but due to labor efficiency. Learn how to turn labor pressure into predictable profit.

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3 min read


The Great Labor Reset: A Profit-Focused Framework for Managing Labor
Revenue growth alone no longer guarantees profitability. Today, labor efficiency has become the true dividing line between growth that builds profit and growth that destroys it. This shift is what is referred to as “The Great Labor Reset”, and it's changing the way smart entrepreneurs think about their biggest expense. In this session, CRI Simple Numbers professionals Brandon Gray and Mike Maxson will walk through the plays every entrepreneur should run right now to turn lab

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How to Calculate Labor Efficiency
Growing revenue is harder than it has been in years, and growing profit is even harder. In today’s market, revenue growth alone no longer guarantees profitability. Labor efficiency has become the dividing line between growth that creates value and growth that creates pressure. Use this helpful tool to calculate labor efficiency for your business.

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