Margaret Reynolds 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Growth, real growth, comes from making bold moves. Without confidence, bold moves are unlikely to happen, and confidence comes from reliable data. To generate confidence, an organization must have outside-in, focused market intelligence, and part of that market intelligence is about current and potential customers. So, what does a growth-oriented company need to know about …
Human DNA testing exploded in 2017, more than doubling. Today, around one in twenty-five adult Americans have access to their personal genetic data. A survey by Counsyl, a health technology company based in San Francisco, indicates that 53 percent of U.S. consumers want to know what is in their DNA. What drives the need to …
Don’t you just wish there was a silver bullet for attaining your growth goals? We know there isn’t, but, wouldn’t it be so great if there were? Because we know what we want to achieve. We even have a pretty good idea of the path we need to take to do it. But if you …
Think You Have a Strategic Implementation Problem? Maybe You Really Have a Strategic Clarity Problem! You have a great strategy (or maybe you don’t). Either way, you are experiencing frustration because the implementation of your vision is like rowing a boat upstream and it isn’t yielding the results you are looking for. You are not …
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