Above The Business

Bradley Hamner

What if you could step out of the day-to-day and see your business from a whole new perspective? Welcome to Above The Business, where we empower you to rise above the daily grind and embrace a higher way of business ownership. It's time to build your business by design. www.abovethebusiness.co

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Above The Business

Episodes (500)

Yesterday #596: Functional Areas of Business
Tuesday #595: Developing A-Players
Fri Aug 21st #594: Systems Champion

Above The Business

Aug 28, 2026
18 minutes
41 MB

In this solo episode, Bradley Hamner breaks down the three functional areas of a business: growth, delivery and fulfillment, and operations. Owners lean hard into one of them based on what they did before they started the company, and that tilt shows up in the books they read, the conferences they attend, and the problems they instinctively reach for. Bradley explains how growth splits further into marketing and sales, why a strong sales background often leaves the marketing function underbuilt, and why operations is the area he sees optimized least. He closes with a three-step thinking exercise...

Above The Business

#596: Functional Areas of Business

Bradley Hamner

00:00 -17:50