Balancing the Three Unavoidable Zones of Business Growth

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Would you like to be able to predict the challenges you will encounter as a business owner, before they happen? There are actually three unavoidable modes every company experiences when it goes through growth: Preparation Zone, the Performance…

Getting Systems and Processes in Place as Company Grows

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Anyone who worked with me or has read my blogs knows how passionate I am about helping business owners create effective processes. Processes are usually not the sexy side of growth - others prefer to talk about buzzworthy concepts of innovation,…

Focusing on Opportunities

The Challenge Defined: As companies grow and add levels of hierarchy, it’s harder to stay agile and creative and to respond quickly to new opportunities. Decision-making is slowed because the stakes are higher. Leadership teams tend to…

Sharing Inside Business Information With Employees

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The Challenge Defined: Not only is it critical that your employees understand how their jobs fit within the company’s operating systems and processes, they also need to realize how they personally bring value. They should understand how…

Getting New Product/Services to Market Quickly

The Challenge Defined: Being slow to get new or enhanced products or services ready for and to the market can be a make-or-break issue for an early stage company and a significant profitability issue for more mature companies.  This challenge…

Identifying Problems Early in Their Development

The Challenge Defined: As your company becomes more complex, it's harder to detect problems that may be just beneath the surface, creating cracks that could sink your organization. The key for you is to take every negative undercurrent or…

Keeping the Customer Front and Center

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During rapid growth, you may find your business shifting from the desperate search for customers to the desperate search for ways to operate better, faster and cheaper. At this point, it's quite possible to lose sight of why your customers are…

Getting the Full Benefit From Employee Communication

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As the company grows, people within it tend to get held up in their roles without seeing the big picture. You will be surprised how many employees find it difficult to answer two fundamental questions about their workplace:  What business…

Promoting Change Within an Organization

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The Challenge Defined: When it comes to change in organizations, there’s a dynamic called the Builder/Protector Ratio. A Builder mindset is comfortable with risk and they’re not afraid of change or the new challenges that will emerge.…

Retaining Key Employees

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A valued employee may leave your company for any number of reasons. All too often, it happens in a growing company when someone who used to have direct access to you is now separated from you by a manager or director.  There’s a high cost…