Interview with Rick Blomquist, Vice President and General Manager of Pet-Ag

Beat the Odds with Acquisitions Through Strategic Clarity As Rick Blomquist knows, acquisitions play an important role in business growth, but only if successful and the odds are against you. Typically, 70-90% of mergers and acquisitions fail to generate shareholder value according to collated research and Harvard Business Review. Yet for every dollar of business …

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Announcing new book release from Margaret Reynolds this fall

Announcing new book release from Margaret Reynolds this fall Boost Your GrowthDNA: How Strategic Leaders Use Growth Genetics to Drive Sustainable Business Performance What are people saying: From Marshall Goldsmith, top business coach and author of 35 bestsellers including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and other strategic leadership books. “Margaret Reynolds is …

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Time to Invest in Your Business: How?

“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” Warren Buffett Time to Invest in Your Business: How? Right now the market is pretty strong, and when markets are strong, business looks good. In fact, the economy’s current expansion is set to become the longest in US history. “ ‘Spectacular’ is …

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GrowthDNA workshop planned

GrowthDNA addresses the question of why some companies are more successful than others even when both do “everything right”. The answer is that it is not what companies do, but about HOW they do it that matters. Come discover the four strands of GrowthDNA that every growth-minded company needs along with insights on how to …

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The Great Debate

Should you share profitability with your employees…or not? The video provides the pros and cons of sharing profitability with employees and the top 4 things every employee needs to know to maximize their contribution to the company’s success. Interested in getting more engaged and motivated employees? Then you will definitely want to watch!

Which Growth Solution Works Best for You?

Almost every CEO wants to grow their business. After all, performance improvement is usually how CEOs get evaluated. The question is, what solution do they use to accomplish it? Solution Option 1: Do it Myself.  Without question this is the most commonly deployed method for pursuing company growth. Unfortunately, it is the least successful. Statistics …

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The Most Influential Conditions Impacting How Leaders Lead

According to the 2019 Benchmark Report on Trends in Executive Development published by EDA, the Most Influential Conditions impacting how leaders lead and shape their company’s futures are: Changing Business Strategies Digital Transformation Economic Conditions Changing Customer Requirements Need for Innovation In a call last week with CEO’s we discussed these topics and concluded we …

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GrowthDNA Workshop September 2019

Join us at the GrowthDNA Workshop September 18th, 2019, Sponsored by HEMP, Community America, Commerce Bank, Lockton Companies, and John Knox Village GrowthDNA addresses the question of why some companies are more successful than others even when both do “everything right”. The answer is that it is not what companies do, but about HOW they …

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CEO Interview – Gordon Harton

Gordon Harton, CEO of Worldwide Steel Buildings Gordon Harton has been a long-term corporate executive and a serial entrepreneur, but regardless of his role, he has counted on two key principles to achieve his goals—know the end user better than others and be sure you have a great team. Harton worked with VF Corporation, the …

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Solving Customer Problems

You ever heard the joke about how smoothly our businesses would operate if it weren’t for customers? Ha-ha! Of course, we all know we wouldn’t have a business if it weren’t for customers. And those customers don’t stand still. Their demand for value is always increasing…more, more, more. How do we give them what they …

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