One of the great things about Doba is that I believe we’ve made changes when and how necessary to keep the business growing and evolving. When I announced to the company that we’d been ranked #23 on the Inc. 500 list, I presented “23 Things That Got Us Here” and “23 Things That Will Get Us To Where We Want To Go”. The only thing on both lists? Change.

We’re making some more changes at Doba. Blaine Nielsen is going to take over my job as CEO. We’ve been moving in this direction for about a year now. We took a big step in that direction a few months back when Blaine became the President and COO and I added Chairman to my title. Blaine does the day-to-day details, the metrics, the accountability, the management of Doba and our team extremely well. I’m going to continue to be Chairman and President for Doba. And focus on 30,000 foot view strategic initiatives and progress by providing that input and direction and vision to the rest of the AWESOME executive team we have at Doba. (learn more about Doba’s Board and Exec team) I’m also going to be heading up the process of adjusting and moving Doba’s product ‘up-market’. Watch for that next year. The nice thing for us about not having outside investors in Doba is that this is a plan that I came up with and that I presented to the other cofounders and worked to get into place.

Change is not easy. But for me, change is fun and something that I embrace with both arms wide open.

So here’s to Change. I’ll leave you with a few quotes I drummed up about change:

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. — Confucius

When you are through changing, you are through. — Bruce Barton

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. — W. Edwards Deming