The Operations Series

Simple Solutions for a Complex World.

VOL. 01 Released · R5

OperationsLaunchpad

A 100-Day Blueprint for Mastering Money, People, and Capacity

You just took over a business. The MPC Framework gives you the structure to stabilize cash, steady the team, and run a profitable operation inside your first hundred days.

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Three volumes, one shelf

Each book solves one thing a growing operation gets wrong. Read them in any order. They were built to stack.

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VOL. 01Money · People · Capacity

Operations Launchpad

A 100-Day Blueprint for Mastering Money, People, and Capacity

Taking over a business is not the hard part. The first hundred days are. Written by a COO who has done it on real plant floors, Launchpad hands you the MPC Framework: a day-by-day structure for getting control of the money, reading the team you inherited, and matching capacity to what customers actually order.

  • Stand up financial controls and KPI tracking from week one
  • Assess the team you inherited, then build one that keeps its best people
  • Find the real constraint in your capacity before you spend a dollar on it
  • Leave day 100 with a business that runs on a system, not on you
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VOL. 02Minutes → Months

Operations TimeScale

From Chaos to Clarity: Structuring Business Growth with TimeScale Leadership

In every plant, shop floor, and service business there is a moment where everything feels reactive. Same questions, same fires, and nobody stepping up. That is not a people problem. It is a structure problem. TimeScale assigns every role a time horizon, from Minutes to Months, so decisions land at the level that owns them.

  • Turn daily firefighting into leadership development
  • Draw clear lanes of responsibility and decision-making
  • Use tools like PayScale and your ERP to reinforce accountability
  • Roll out structure without slowing your team down
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VOL. 03Pay · Training · Motivation

Operations PayScale

From Favoritism to Fairness: Structured Pay and Advancement with the PayScale Model

Every operation hits the same wall. Good people ask what it takes to earn more, and the honest answer is a shrug. Raises get handed out to keep the peace, top performers drift, and payroll climbs faster than output. PayScale ties pay to a visible ladder of skill. Every role gets defined levels, every level gets the training that unlocks it, and every step gets a number your margin can carry.

  • Build pay bands that fit your real cost structure
  • Make training the only path to the next level
  • Kill the annual raise negotiation for good
  • Roll out the scale without blowing up payroll
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The MPC Framework

Money, People, and Capacity across three phases of a hundred days. This is the spine of Operations Launchpad, and the reason the other two volumes have something to attach to.

PHASE / PILLAR
MoneyCash & controls
PeopleTeam & culture
CapacityThroughput
Initial Review
DAYS 1–30
MoneyStand up financial controls and a reporting rhythm you can trust.
PeopleMap the team structure and the roles you actually inherited.
CapacityMeasure what the operation can really produce today.
Deep Dive
DAYS 31–70
MoneyPut KPIs and financial metrics in front of the people who move them.
PeopleBuild the training and culture work that makes staying worth it.
CapacityAttack the constraint: workflow, changeover, and process loss.
Sustained Improvement
DAYS 71–100
MoneyShift from stabilizing cash to funding growth on purpose.
PeopleHand the rhythm to leaders so it survives without you in the room.
CapacityScale the system you built instead of rebuilding it every quarter.
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Pillar One, installed by Monday

The MPC™ 13-Week Cash Control System takes the Money pillar out of the book and turns it into something you run. A local-first cash forecasting app, an Excel workbook, and an owner's manual that tells you what to do with what you see.

Thirteen weeks of visibility. Decide before the cash decides for you.

Explore the system
Horizon
13 weeksRolling weekly forecast
Data
Local-firstYour numbers stay on your machine
Includes
App + WorkbookPlus the Owner's Manual
Pillar
MoneyChapters 1–4 of Launchpad
FIELD NOTE
"I've had the pleasure of working alongside Bradly Tabor and watching the MPC system in action every day. If you're stepping into a new business and need a proven framework, this is a game plan worth checking out."
Casey Minshew Business Owner
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The author

Bradly S Tabor is a chief operating officer and a military veteran. He built the MPC Framework the slow way, inside real plants, on real floors, with real payroll to meet on Friday.

The Operations Series is what he wished someone had handed him on day one: military discipline translated into plain operating instructions, written for the person who has to walk out and make it work in the morning. No jargon, no theory nobody uses. Simple solutions for a complex world.

Elsewhere
LinkedIn ↗ Instagram ↗ Facebook ↗ M&A Launchpad Podcast ↗
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Free resources

Everything below is free and takes less than a minute to put to work.

MPC Cheat Sheet

The one-page Money-People-Capacity execution checklist for your first 100 days, the exact one referenced in the book.

Get it below ↓

M&A Launchpad Podcast

Conversations on acquisitions, ownership transitions, and what actually happens after the close.

Listen on Spotify ↗

Implementation Videos

Short walkthroughs of each MPC phase, filmed against a real operation instead of a whiteboard.

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