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5 Keys to Accelerating Growth & Impact
We identified 5 keys to accelerating performance across activities and functional areas.
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Accelerate Profitability
Profitability provides cash for business investment, which leads to more growth and increased impact. It's a virtuous cycle.
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Decrease Business Risk by Increasing Growth
Accelerate your business to decrease the risks of a slow-moving business, but without spinning out of control. Follow the 5 keys ...
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Accelerate Preparation
The time-tested SWOT Analysis provides the ideal approach for determining where to focus, particularly when resources are limited.
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Accelerate Investment
Raising money at the right time and with the right investor is critical for a growing business.
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Accelerate Growth and Impact
Climate change and the deteriorating environment require action – and fast. Growing small and mid-sized companies are an important part...
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Business Lessons from Tennis
I used to play tennis somewhat regularly, but took a break of over 20 years while I focused on racquetball. For the past few years, I...
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Ask 6 Powerful Questions to Screen Business Growth Opportunities
Business owners and leaders tend to be a creative group. They can generate ideas for new products or services at a furious pace, and...
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9 Elements of a Successful Business Model
Many very smart business people don’t understand business modeling, or can’t differentiate it from strategic planning. Until recently,...
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8 Ways that Focusing on Value Increases Profits
Business owners worry about how much their business will be worth when they eventually exit. For most of them, the business is their most...
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7 Ways to Determine whether You Own a Job or a Business
The more valuable the owner is to the company, the less their company is worth. That may be good for the owner’s ego, but it’s bad for...
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Get Away – and Improve Your Business
It’s August, and you may be feeling frustrated with your inability to take your well-deserved vacation. After all, you’re the owner of...
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6 Reasons to Focus Your Business
Selling too many products or services typically results in a watered down, mediocre product, and leads to lower profits and decreased...
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Is Your Business Ready for Growth?
During the early stages, a business focuses on two primary elements: generating revenues and making a profit. As the business matures and...
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Don’t Get Blind-sided by Your Business Financials
Business owners can be unpleasantly surprised if they don’t have a way to predict future financial performance. Monthly reviews of your...
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What is a Business Model and Why Does It Matter?
It’s hard for a business leader to understand the value of a business model if they don’t understand what a business model is. In my less...
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Longer Time Horizon Is Better for Triple Bottom Line
A longer time horizon can provide insights that lead to better results for all three elements of the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet,...
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Business Owner Is Ready to Chill – But Is the Business?
Many business owners reach a point where they feel comfortable with how things are going. They’re making good money, are no longer...
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How Good is Good Enough?
Many of us are taught from childhood to “do our best.” We are not told to “do our best given the available time and resources available...
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Openness and Trust – Key Drivers of Sustainability & Profitability
About ten years ago, I went to a seminar on marketing one to one, offered by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers of Peppers & Rodgers Group....
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