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Running a business without strategy is like driving your car without a clear destination and map to get there.  It is both confusing and inefficient.  Business isn’t something you make up as you go along.  The leader needs ensure he/she is well informed about external industry dynamics and the needed related internal capabilities.   The best leaders anticipate, then create the future using a well-informed strategy to make it happen. They also ensure everyone in the organization is clear about this direction and why it’s important.

Managing Your Business Risk Effectively

Introduction: Navigating the complex world of business risk is a critical aspect of steering your company towards success and sustainability. The array of potential risks can be overwhelming, from economic fluctuations to technological advancements. This blog is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of these risks and introduce an effective tool for managing

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When You’re Not Sure What To Do: Strengthen Your Balance Sheet

In the complex world of business, it’s rare for leaders to always have all the answers. Sometimes, market shifts catch you off guard. The bank might unexpectedly suggest revising their lending and credit policies. Game-changing competitors could emerge. Customers, once loyal, may now face their own industry challenges and look elsewhere. Or maybe that new

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Two Different Approaches to Grow Your Business: Scale or Replication

  Scaling and replication are two different approaches to organically grow your business. Scaling involves increasing the size and scope of your existing business operations, while replication involves creating a duplicate of your business operations in a new location or market using the same business model, products or services, and branding. Scaling is when you

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    Favorite Articles

  • Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance

    McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. Organizational health refers to how effectively leaders “run the place”—that is, how they make decisions, allocate resources, operate day to day, and lead their teams with the goal […]

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  • How Fast Should Your Company Really Grow?

    Growth—in revenues and profits—is the yardstick by which the competitive fitness and health of organizations is measured. Consistent profitable growth is thus a near universal goal for leaders—and an elusive one. To achieve that goal, companies need a growth strategy that encompasses three related sets of decisions: how fast to grow, where to seek new […]

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  • The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

    Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they […]

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    Helpful Websites

  • BCG Henderson Institute

    Since its founding in 1963, BCG has become known for its analytical approach to problem-solving, as well as the emphasis it places on the exploration and development of new business ideas and pursuits. Notably, BCG’s founder, Bruce D. Henderson pioneered the field of corporate strategy and developed concepts like the Experience Curve and the Growth-Share […]

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  • Growth Institute

    Professional development resource/community for leaders looking to scale their business.

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  • Free Business Lessons – Harvard Business School Online

    Gain actionable skills and insights through free, interactive, online business lessons from leading Harvard Business School faculty and industry experts.

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    Reading Excerpts

  • On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 3-5 by Ed Robinson

        “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” —Peter Drucker   Part Three: It Takes Vision If you ask the average employee of the typical company why the company exists, what sets it […]

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  • Small Giants by Bo Burlingham

      Introduction …they have chosen not to focus on revenue growth or geographical expansion, pursuing instead other goals they consider more important than getting as big as possible, as fast as possible.  To make those tradeoffs, the companies have had to remain privately owned, with the majority of stock in the hands of one person, […]

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  • How The Mighty Fall by Jim Collins

      Five Stages of Decline: Hubris Born of Success Undisciplined Pursuit of More Denial of Risk and Peril Grasping for Salvation Capitulation to Irreverence or Death   “The concept of hubris is defined as excessive pride that brings down a hero, or alternatively, outrageous arrogance that inflicts suffering upon the innocent.”   Cycle of Arrogant […]

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