

In the military, the camaraderie with those around you is essential and incredible, so we’ve brought that type of camaraderie into our business-all based on our passion for doing the right thing. I’m a disabled veteran, so we’ve developed this component of our business that stems from my military experience. We’re seeing how important these values are.

We’re going to live with these ten core values and build systems that relate to those values.” It was all about developing and refining a vision everyone could get on board with. We said, “Hey, we’re going to be the best utility provider on the West Coast and we’re going to do it with these ten core values. That was the first thing that we set out to create. We’re incredibly passionate about our work we have a lot of drive, but up until now we haven’t had a long-term vision or mission around what we’re trying to accomplish. The EMyth program gave us the structure and substance we needed to run and grow our business. We knew that if we didn’t focus on systematizing our business, we weren’t going to be able to grow at the rate we desired. What was their role in operations? How should they engage with clients? It felt more like crisis management than project management. We didn’t have a handle on what each employee’s job really was. There couldn’t only be one guy doing estimates, and only one reaching out to clients. I knew that for us to be sustainable, I couldn’t be the only guy to do design work. Our people system was completely unstable: We didn’t have any sort of chain of command, roles, responsibilities, or anything to hold employees (or ourselves) accountable. We could see the opportunity to create a great business and knew we had the potential and drive to get there-but we lacked the fundamentals to run a business that could keep up with its own demand.įor many years, we were spinning. We started the company under several different premises, specializing in directional drilling with a component of engineering and design. I joined him four years later as a business partner and friend. My business partner, Billy Kilmer, started Accu-Bore Directional Drilling in 2006. Together with his partner and his EMyth Coach, he found the vision and values needed to structure Accu-Bore for the future. When a lack of systems was stagnating growth, Mike knew he needed to build more structure into his business if it was going to survive. Mike Robirds began EMyth Coaching for his company, Accu-Bore Directional Drilling, in 2014.
