Charlie Munger was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a business partner with Warren Buffet. On numerous occasions, Warren has described Munger as his closest partner and right-hand man. Charlie Munger passed away this year on November 28th, 2023, 34 days short of his 100th birthday, with an estimated net worth of over $2.6 billion, according to Wikipedia. It’s reported that Charlie Munger gave away at least $500 million to charity over the course of his 99-year lifespan.
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Munger spoke more than once about the process of ‘Inverted Thinking,’ which he claimed he learned from Albert Einstein. This method of inverted thinking involves looking at a problem, challenge, or decision from the opposite point of view. So rather than focusing on how to achieve ‘success,’ which can feel and seem nebulous at times, instead focus on how to achieve ‘failure.’
Make a list of what would be fundamentally necessary for you and your business to fail in 2024, then avoid those behaviors, decisions, and choices like the plague. While there are hundreds of strategies, choices, and behaviors you could leverage and deploy to destroy your business in epic form, listed below are 10 surefire ways you can destroy your business in 2024 in as few moves as possible.
‘Invert, always invert! Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backwards.’
Charlie Munger, VP, Berkshire Hathaway
(1924-2023)
10 Ways To Destroy Your Business In 2024 In As Few Moves As Possible
1.) Relentlessly pursue inconsistency.
Pursuing inconsistency is a phenomenal way to destroy your business. If your company frequently changes directions, strategies, and priorities without proper planning, you’ll create confusion, rework, and inefficiencies across your entire organization.
Your employees will increasingly become more and more disengaged as their efforts seem wasted or meaningless. Your customers are certain to lose trust when your offers and messaging are inconsistent. Your suppliers and partners will hesitate to invest resources when your company seems unpredictable. Morale and productivity will plummet as your people realize that they have no stable ground on which to stand.
2.) Avoid systems like the plague.
By all means, avoiding systems and processes is a surefire way to destroy your business. Generating leads, nurturing leads into customers, closing more sales, increasing customer loyalty, and, of course, ascending your customers to spend more money more frequently are some of the top systems you should avoid at all costs.
Without established systems, there are no standards or measures for success in growing your business. Your work will become ad hoc and unstructured, making it virtually impossible to sustain, let alone to scale.
Don’t worry. There will be a complete lack of accountability and quality control, leading to tons of mistakes and oversights. Poor communication and coordination will cause unnecessary delays, waste, and friction.
3.) Don’t tell anyone about your products or services.
By all means, refuse to tell others about your products or services. This is crucial. Without awareness, there will be no demand. If no one knows what your business offers, you have no customers and, soon enough, you’ll also be totally broke from a lack of revenue.
Rest on your laurels and rely exclusively on word-of-mouth referrals and repeat business. If total destruction of your business is your top priority, stop showing up. Eradicate all marketing, stop making cold calls, stop posting on social media, don’t pay for advertising, stop all email and SMS marketing, and make sure there are no active sales funnels running for your business. Cease and desist from doing webinars to educate your audience, and creating content that focuses on the problems your ideal customers face.
In an increasingly competitive landscape, obscurity means losing out to rivals aggressively pursuing mindshare. Promotions and sales are impossible if customers never encountered your brand before. Overall, staying invisible fosters distrust regarding your capabilities and viability and leaves you entirely reliant on inbound inquiries, which will most assuredly be sparse and unreliable.
4.) Create terrible products and services that nobody values.
Offering terrible products and services is an indomitable path to destroying your business. Highly resistible and low-quality products and services will immediately alienate your prospects and customers. Defective and unreliable products are sure to generate returns, complaints, and negative word-of-mouth about your brand. Your customers will not repurchase or recommend your offers, which will quickly cripple your growth.
Be sure to provide a poor user experience through bad design and poor usability. Bugs and technical problems signal sloppy engineering. Inferior materials, manufacturing, and craftsmanship convey cheapness rather than prestige. Commoditized products with no differentiation get easily outmatched in price and performance. Dated offerings that lag trends will look irrelevant in the eyes of your ideal customers. Create impractical products that do not actually solve your customer needs.
Be sure to constantly release minimum viable products (MVPs) without refinements if you really want to show apathy toward excellence.
5.) Cut costs blindly without considering the negative consequences.
Blindly cutting costs without considering the negative consequences for your business is a sure way to destroy your business. While cost management is wise and necessary, indiscriminate cost-cutting will most certainly deliver immeasurable harm to your long-term viability. Be sure to cut essential personnel and resources that are needed for your operations. Eliminate staff training and development to save money in the short term, which will degrade your capabilities over time.
Don’t forget to compress your production schedules if you really want to lead to poor quality. By all means, clip your marketing and advertising budgets to give your competitors the edge they need.
Delay all maintenance and upgrades to ensure you’re consistently increasing downtime and failures. Eliminate customer service channels if you really want to erode customer loyalty.
Pursue a ‘penny wise but pound foolish’ mindset if you want to maximize your opportunities for successfully destroying your business as quickly as possible.
6.) Avoid leverage in your business altogether.
I recently wrote about the 4 C’s of leverage, which are 1.) Collaboration, 2.) Capital, 3.) Code, and 4.) Content. What is leverage? I define leverage as: ‘The gap between what you put into something versus what you get out of it.’
But if business destruction is your goal, avoid leverage in your business altogether. A lack of leverage is a quicker path to the failure of your business. Without leverage, all of your gains are linear and incremental based purely on the labor you invest without the benefits of synergy and exponential growth opportunities.
Growth is virtually guaranteed to be much more arduous and limited. The inability to collaborate will completely forfeit synergies from teamwork and partnerships. By avoiding access to capital leaves you reliant on internal cash flow, crimping your expansion.
No code or automation multiplies the need for manual effort. Reinventing the wheel on processes will waste a lot more resources relearning known techniques.
And by limiting your content, you’ll ensure that you provide no platform to widely distribute your offers and communicate value.
Without reusable assets, every marketing campaign and product you build will have to start from scratch, your effort is duplicated instead of leveraged, and there will be no economies of scale.
Leverage is force multiplication; without it, even simple progress becomes arduous. Your business is doomed if you work towards restricting it to linear effort alone.
7.) Be diligent in neglecting your brand building and marketing.
Neglecting marketing and brand building is a cost-effective and efficient way to destroy your business. With no brand presence, your company cedes mindshare to your competitors. Customers will forget about you and your offers over time as other brands remind people of their offerings through advertising and content.
A lack of marketing will help you fail to attract new customers, locking growth to existing users alone. Stopping all promotions will help your business to fall sleepily into obscurity, which is imperative if you want to fail more quickly.
An inactive social media presence will deny opportunities for your prospects to engage with your brand and foster loyalty. Minimal brand exposure lets all of your competitor’s messaging go uncontested. Your declining brand awareness signals fading relevance in the eyes of your audience.
The more quiet your brand gets, the more your business will be perceived as stagnant and inferior. Failure to monitor metrics like brand equity will leave you blind to erosion. Customers with no emotional connection to your brand will feel no remorse when switching to alternative providers.
Your business will efficiently wind down to serving a shrinking captive segment until it’s discontinued altogether. Since marketing is the lifeblood of customer acquisition, retention, and growth, be sure that abandoning it as soon as possible is on your top list of priorities.
8.) Embrace complacency and put off until tomorrow what you could do today.
Complacency and procrastination are insidious toxins that efficiently destroy businesses and give your competition the edge they need to pass you by. By failing to sense and respond to market shifts, competitive innovations, and customer needs, you’ll be obsolete in no time.
Cling on as long as you can to legacy products, practices, and business models if you really want to calcify thinking on your team. You need to prioritize short-term comfort over long-term threats that will lead to delayed reactions when a crisis hits.
Stall on developing new skills and digital capabilities will help you to entrench stagnation and obsolecense. Procrastinate on decisions so you can paralyze progress and breed maximum frustration. Innovation suffers as you optimize for convenience over change. Difficult but necessary transformations like restructurings, process improvements, and new strategies should be postponed or abandoned altogether.
Complacency will reward inertia over proactivity when dealing with problems. Issues will fester longer and will most certainly escalate as bold intervention is viewed as disruptive and inconvenient. The morale of your team will suffer as talent leaves for more ambitious competitors. Your unwillingness to take risks will doom you to incrementalism in a rapidly growing nonlinear world. The longer you delay disruption, the steeper the decline when it inevitably hits. Like the fabled frog in slowly boiling water, your complacent business will fail to see threats until it’s too late. Decisive action has a window, but complacency closes it permanently.
‘Progress is the slow boring of hard boards, and anyone who seeks it must risk his own soul. Change comes in excruciating increments to those who really want it.’
Max Weber
9.) Pursue hubris with reckless abandon and refuse to learn from your mistakes and the wisdom of others.
Hubris and an inability to learn will ensure that your business repeats the same mistakes until its ultimate failure. Believe your judgments are infallible if you really want to blind yourself to gaps in knowledge and brewing threats. You should always dismiss past failures as anomalies or bad luck, which helps to prevent reflection on process flaws and poor decisions.
‘Hubris is arrogance born of success.’
Jim Collins
Best Selling Author
Refuse feedback to stunt your self-awareness and ability for improvement. Surround yourself with sycophants will create an echo chamber that amplifies your own confirmation bias. Arrogance will empower you to reject cautionary tales and believe with utter confidence that others’ mistakes won’t apply to you. Your overconfidence will most assuredly lead to recklessness and minimal contingency planning.
Be sure to blame external factors if you want to prevent accountability and self-correction. As problems recur, double down rather than choose to question your assumptions.
Institutional amnesia will set in as past errors get buried and forgotten instead of studied. You’ll be able to avoid tribal knowledge altogether as experiences pass without being codified into processes. This cycle of unlearning guarantees repeated pitfalls. And with no mechanisms for systemic learning, your business will fail to evolve.
The same worn tactics will get repeatedly deployed until their futility is existential. Your inability to acknowledge and learn from errors will ensure their repetition.
10.) Reward selfishness, poor attitudes, and bad behaviors from your team to run off your best people as quickly as possible.
To destroy your business, reward selfishness over collaboration and tolerate bad attitudes that drive away your top talent. You should always promote based on personal loyalty rather than a meritocracy.
You should focus on compensating individuals only for their own outcomes rather than team success.
By all means, encourage competition and infighting rather than cooperation. Allow your people to sabotage each other to get ahead. Allow credit stealing, blame games, and taking shortcuts that hurt the team.
Let stubbornness, ego, and resistance to new ideas fester rather than insist on open-mindedness and creativity. Allow your people to avoid accountability for poor performance and bad behavior. Never address conflicts and let problems simmer. And always enable coasting and passive-aggressive disengagement by failing to punish anyone’s lack of effort.
Celebrate smugness, arrogance, and insensitivity to others. Let cliques and exclusionary social dynamics split your culture into hostile camps. Allow a lack of psychological safety by not intervening against harassment, prejudice, and unfairness. The best will quickly leave your selfish and toxic environment. The worst will rise up as heroes for upholding your mercenary and callous cultural values. Your business will soon collapse from the weight of animosity and infighting.
Summary
Clearly, you’re not out to destroy your business. But hopefully, this process of ‘inverted thinking’ will allow you to codify your strategies for success in a clear and beneficial way for both yourself and your team. While I could’ve added dozens, perhaps hundreds, more strategies and tactics for destroying your business as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible, the ten listed in this article aren’t a bad start.
I hope that you take every opportunity to leverage and deploy every tool, tactic, and strategy at your disposal to create enormous, life-changing growth for you and your business in 2024 and beyond. The world needs you, your products, and your services in order to be a better place. The team and I here at Whatbox Digital are here to help you out along the way.
About the author.
Brian Webb is a 22-year entrepreneur, private investor, business & profit growth mentor, a B2B marketer, and the host of the Business Growth Show podcast.
In addition to managing a growing portfolio of businesses, Brian is the CEO of the award-winning marketing and business growth consulting agency in The Woodlands, Texas (Greater Houston Metroplex), Whatbox Digital, LLC.
You can find Brian on Apple, Google, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and Amazon. Brian’s writings have been published and featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and MarketWatch, and has been approved as a Forbes Business Council member and content contributor.
You may also recognize some of Brian’s anchor clients like Coca-Cola, Comcast, Coldwell Banker, Entrepreneur’s Organization, Hospital Corp of America, and Karbach Brewing, to name a few.
Charlie Munger was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a business partner with Warren Buffet. On numerous occasions, Warren has described Munger as his closest partner and right-hand man. Charlie Munger passed away this year on November 28th, 2023, 34 days short of his 100th birthday, with an estimated net worth of over $2.6 billion, according to Wikipedia. It’s reported that Charlie Munger gave away at least $500 million to charity over the course of his 99-year lifespan.
Not a reader? Not a problem. Listen to this episode of the Business Growth Show podcast instead.
Munger spoke more than once about the process of ‘Inverted Thinking,’ which he claimed he learned from Albert Einstein. This method of inverted thinking involves looking at a problem, challenge, or decision from the opposite point of view. So rather than focusing on how to achieve ‘success,’ which can feel and seem nebulous at times, instead focus on how to achieve ‘failure.’
Make a list of what would be fundamentally necessary for you and your business to fail in 2024, then avoid those behaviors, decisions, and choices like the plague. While there are hundreds of strategies, choices, and behaviors you could leverage and deploy to destroy your business in epic form, listed below are 10 surefire ways you can destroy your business in 2024 in as few moves as possible.
‘Invert, always invert! Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backwards.’
Charlie Munger
VP, Berkshire Hathaway
(1924-2023)
10 Ways To Destroy Your Business In 2024 In As Few Moves As Possible
1.) Relentlessly pursue inconsistency.
Pursuing inconsistency is a phenomenal way to destroy your business. If your company frequently changes directions, strategies, and priorities without proper planning, you’ll create confusion, rework, and inefficiencies across your entire organization.
Your employees will increasingly become more and more disengaged as their efforts seem wasted or meaningless. Your customers are certain to lose trust when your offers and messaging are inconsistent. Your suppliers and partners will hesitate to invest resources when your company seems unpredictable. Morale and productivity will plummet as your people realize that they have no stable ground on which to stand.
2.) Avoid systems like the plague.
By all means, avoiding systems and processes is a surefire way to destroy your business. Generating leads, nurturing leads into customers, closing more sales, increasing customer loyalty, and, of course, ascending your customers to spend more money more frequently are some of the top systems you should avoid at all costs.
Without established systems, there are no standards or measures for success in growing your business. Your work will become ad hoc and unstructured, making it virtually impossible to sustain, let alone to scale.
Don’t worry. There will be a complete lack of accountability and quality control, leading to tons of mistakes and oversights. Poor communication and coordination will cause unnecessary delays, waste, and friction.
3.) Don’t tell anyone about your products or services.
By all means, refuse to tell others about your products or services. This is crucial. Without awareness, there will be no demand. If no one knows what your business offers, you have no customers and, soon enough, you’ll also be totally broke from a lack of revenue.
Rest on your laurels and rely exclusively on word-of-mouth referrals and repeat business. If total destruction of your business is your top priority, stop showing up. Eradicate all marketing, stop making cold calls, stop posting on social media, don’t pay for advertising, stop all email and SMS marketing, and make sure there are no active sales funnels running for your business. Cease and desist from doing webinars to educate your audience, and creating content that focuses on the problems your ideal customers face.
In an increasingly competitive landscape, obscurity means losing out to rivals aggressively pursuing mindshare. Promotions and sales are impossible if customers never encountered your brand before. Overall, staying invisible fosters distrust regarding your capabilities and viability and leaves you entirely reliant on inbound inquiries, which will most assuredly be sparse and unreliable.
4.) Create terrible products and services that nobody values.
Offering terrible products and services is an indomitable path to destroying your business. Highly resistible and low-quality products and services will immediately alienate your prospects and customers. Defective and unreliable products are sure to generate returns, complaints, and negative word-of-mouth about your brand. Your customers will not repurchase or recommend your offers, which will quickly cripple your growth.
Be sure to provide a poor user experience through bad design and poor usability. Bugs and technical problems signal sloppy engineering. Inferior materials, manufacturing, and craftsmanship convey cheapness rather than prestige. Commoditized products with no differentiation get easily outmatched in price and performance. Dated offerings that lag trends will look irrelevant in the eyes of your ideal customers. Create impractical products that do not actually solve your customer needs.
Be sure to constantly release minimum viable products (MVPs) without refinements if you really want to show apathy toward excellence.
5.) Cut costs blindly without considering the negative consequences.
Blindly cutting costs without considering the negative consequences for your business is a sure way to destroy your business. While cost management is wise and necessary, indiscriminate cost-cutting will most certainly deliver immeasurable harm to your long-term viability. Be sure to cut essential personnel and resources that are needed for your operations. Eliminate staff training and development to save money in the short term, which will degrade your capabilities over time.
Don’t forget to compress your production schedules if you really want to lead to poor quality. By all means, clip your marketing and advertising budgets to give your competitors the edge they need.
Delay all maintenance and upgrades to ensure you’re consistently increasing downtime and failures. Eliminate customer service channels if you really want to erode customer loyalty.
Pursue a ‘penny wise but pound foolish’ mindset if you want to maximize your opportunities for successfully destroying your business as quickly as possible.
6.) Avoid leverage in your business altogether.
I recently wrote about the 4 C’s of leverage, which are 1.) Collaboration, 2.) Capital, 3.) Code, and 4.) Content. What is leverage? I define leverage as: ‘The gap between what you put into something versus what you get out of it.’
But if business destruction is your goal, avoid leverage in your business altogether. A lack of leverage is a quicker path to the failure of your business. Without leverage, all of your gains are linear and incremental based purely on the labor you invest without the benefits of synergy and exponential growth opportunities.
Growth is virtually guaranteed to be much more arduous and limited. The inability to collaborate will completely forfeit synergies from teamwork and partnerships. By avoiding access to capital leaves you reliant on internal cash flow, crimping your expansion.
No code or automation multiplies the need for manual effort. Reinventing the wheel on processes will waste a lot more resources relearning known techniques.
And by limiting your content, you’ll ensure that you provide no platform to widely distribute your offers and communicate value.
Without reusable assets, every marketing campaign and product you build will have to start from scratch, your effort is duplicated instead of leveraged, and there will be no economies of scale.
Leverage is force multiplication; without it, even simple progress becomes arduous. Your business is doomed if you work towards restricting it to linear effort alone.
7.) Be diligent in neglecting your brand building & marketing.
Neglecting marketing and brand building is a cost-effective and efficient way to destroy your business. With no brand presence, your company cedes mindshare to your competitors. Customers will forget about you and your offers over time as other brands remind people of their offerings through advertising and content.
A lack of marketing will help you fail to attract new customers, locking growth to existing users alone. Stopping all promotions will help your business to fall sleepily into obscurity, which is imperative if you want to fail more quickly.
An inactive social media presence will deny opportunities for your prospects to engage with your brand and foster loyalty. Minimal brand exposure lets all of your competitor’s messaging go uncontested. Your declining brand awareness signals fading relevance in the eyes of your audience.
The more quiet your brand gets, the more your business will be perceived as stagnant and inferior. Failure to monitor metrics like brand equity will leave you blind to erosion. Customers with no emotional connection to your brand will feel no remorse when switching to alternative providers.
Your business will efficiently wind down to serving a shrinking captive segment until it’s discontinued altogether. Since marketing is the lifeblood of customer acquisition, retention, and growth, be sure that abandoning it as soon as possible is on your top list of priorities.
8.) Embrace complacency and put off until tomorrow what you could do today.
Complacency and procrastination are insidious toxins that efficiently destroy businesses and give your competition the edge they need to pass you by. By failing to sense and respond to market shifts, competitive innovations, and customer needs, you’ll be obsolete in no time.
Cling on as long as you can to legacy products, practices, and business models if you really want to calcify thinking on your team. You need to prioritize short-term comfort over long-term threats that will lead to delayed reactions when a crisis hits.
Stall on developing new skills and digital capabilities will help you to entrench stagnation and obsolecense. Procrastinate on decisions so you can paralyze progress and breed maximum frustration. Innovation suffers as you optimize for convenience over change. Difficult but necessary transformations like restructurings, process improvements, and new strategies should be postponed or abandoned altogether.
Complacency will reward inertia over proactivity when dealing with problems. Issues will fester longer and will most certainly escalate as bold intervention is viewed as disruptive and inconvenient. The morale of your team will suffer as talent leaves for more ambitious competitors. Your unwillingness to take risks will doom you to incrementalism in a rapidly growing nonlinear world. The longer you delay disruption, the steeper the decline when it inevitably hits. Like the fabled frog in slowly boiling water, your complacent business will fail to see threats until it’s too late. Decisive action has a window, but complacency closes it permanently.
‘Progress is the slow boring of hard boards, and anyone who seeks it must risk his own soul. Change comes in excruciating increments to those who really want it.’
Max Weber
9.) Pursue hubris with reckless abandon and refuse to learn from your mistakes and the wisdom of others.
Hubris and an inability to learn will ensure that your business repeats the same mistakes until its ultimate failure. Believe your judgments are infallible if you really want to blind yourself to gaps in knowledge and brewing threats. You should always dismiss past failures as anomalies or bad luck, which helps to prevent reflection on process flaws and poor decisions.
‘Hubris is arrogance born of success.’
Jim Collins
Best Selling Author
Refuse feedback to stunt your self-awareness and ability for improvement. Surround yourself with sycophants will create an echo chamber that amplifies your own confirmation bias. Arrogance will empower you to reject cautionary tales and believe with utter confidence that others’ mistakes won’t apply to you. Your overconfidence will most assuredly lead to recklessness and minimal contingency planning.
Be sure to blame external factors if you want to prevent accountability and self-correction. As problems recur, double down rather than choose to question your assumptions.
Institutional amnesia will set in as past errors get buried and forgotten instead of studied. You’ll be able to avoid tribal knowledge altogether as experiences pass without being codified into processes. This cycle of unlearning guarantees repeated pitfalls. And with no mechanisms for systemic learning, your business will fail to evolve.
The same worn tactics will get repeatedly deployed until their futility is existential. Your inability to acknowledge and learn from errors will ensure their repetition.
10.) Reward selfishness, poor attitudes, and bad behaviors from your team to run off your best people as quickly as possible.
To destroy your business, reward selfishness over collaboration and tolerate bad attitudes that drive away your top talent. You should always promote based on personal loyalty rather than a meritocracy.
You should focus on compensating individuals only for their own outcomes rather than team success.
By all means, encourage competition and infighting rather than cooperation. Allow your people to sabotage each other to get ahead. Allow credit stealing, blame games, and taking shortcuts that hurt the team.
Let stubbornness, ego, and resistance to new ideas fester rather than insist on open-mindedness and creativity. Allow your people to avoid accountability for poor performance and bad behavior. Never address conflicts and let problems simmer. And always enable coasting and passive-aggressive disengagement by failing to punish anyone’s lack of effort.
Celebrate smugness, arrogance, and insensitivity to others. Let cliques and exclusionary social dynamics split your culture into hostile camps. Allow a lack of psychological safety by not intervening against harassment, prejudice, and unfairness. The best will quickly leave your selfish and toxic environment. The worst will rise up as heroes for upholding your mercenary and callous cultural values. Your business will soon collapse from the weight of animosity and infighting.
Summary
Clearly, you’re not out to destroy your business. But hopefully, this process of ‘inverted thinking’ will allow you to codify your strategies for success in a clear and beneficial way for both yourself and your team. While I could’ve added dozens, perhaps hundreds, more strategies and tactics for destroying your business as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible, the ten listed in this article aren’t a bad start.
I hope that you take every opportunity to leverage and deploy every tool, tactic, and strategy at your disposal to create enormous, life-changing growth for you and your business in 2024 and beyond. The world needs you, your products, and your services in order to be a better place. The team and I here at Whatbox Digital are here to help you out along the way.
About the author.
Brian Webb is a 22-year entrepreneur, private investor, business & profit growth mentor, a B2B marketer, and the host of the Business Growth Show podcast.
In addition to managing a growing portfolio of businesses, Brian is the CEO of the award-winning marketing and business growth consulting agency in The Woodlands, Texas (Greater Houston Metroplex), Whatbox Digital, LLC.
You can find Brian on Apple, Google, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and Amazon. Brian’s writings have been published and featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and MarketWatch, and has been approved as a Forbes Business Council member and content contributor.
You may also recognize some of Brian’s anchor clients like Coca-Cola, Comcast, Coldwell Banker, Entrepreneur’s Organization, Hospital Corp of America, and Karbach Brewing, to name a few.