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Want A Foolproof Blueprint For Business Growth?
In our last post about the Value Creation Vector, we dug into the first lever, Profit Potential. Today we’re going to look at the second lever: Growth Potential. Once we have assurance that you’re maxing out the profit potential of your business, we want to help you grow the sh*t out of it.
Show Me The Money! What’s Your Profit Potential?
In my last post about the Value Creation Vector, I provided an overview of the tool and how it can drive focus, prioritize actions and deliver results for companies. Today, I’m going in more detail about the first lever: Profit Potential.
Does Your Family Office Have the Right Stuff? How Having the Right Experience and the Right Reasons Are Critical to Successful Direct Investing
In our article, How To Start Direct Investing In Your Family Office, we outlined five key success factors that contribute to successful direct investing for family offices: Right Experience, Right Reasons, Right Strategy, Right Team and Right Discipline. So, let’s jump in…what do we mean by Right Experience and Right Reasons?
Looking For Growth In All The Wrong Places? Our Value Creation Vector Can Help
It may sound simple, but helping our clients address the right questions at the right time is one of our differentiating skills. What are we trying to accomplish? What are the most important questions to answer first? What data do we need? How can we eliminate irrelevant noise? What questions come next? With the Value Creation Vector, we quickly assess the current state to determine where to start and what to do next.
How To Start The New Year Right
We’re already a few weeks into 2019, but it’s not too late to lay the groundwork for success with your teams that will pay dividends throughout the year. Best-in-class companies start the year right by taking time to develop Aspirations, identify the Levers that support those aspirations and set a Positive, Energetic Tone to inspire employees. By embracing these small steps, you and your team will have a shared foundation for executing and adjusting throughout the year as unexpected highs and lows come your way.
How To Start Direct Investing In Your Family Office
Over the last decade, direct investing by family offices has increased dramatically, as chronicled by countless family office publications, private wealth advisory firms, and, most recently, Middle Market Growth. The November/December cover story features Michael Pucker of DNS Capital – husband of American billionaire, Hyatt Hotel heir and philanthropist, Gigi Pritzker. Like DNS Capital, at … Continued
2 Resolutions That Will Make You Smarter… And More Successful
It’s a new year, and time to make resolutions for changing your ways in 2019 to achieve both personal and professional goals. Whether you’re a CEO, a member of the C-suite, a mid-level manager, or an individual contributor, two simple New Year’s resolutions will make 2019 a business game changer.
Position for Long-term Value Creation by Overcoming Barriers to Business Model Innovation
Scott Kirsner’s HBR article, The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies, analyzes a survey of large companies who were asked about obstacles they face when tackling innovation. Top responses include the importance of politics, lack of executive alignment, a culture that doesn’t embrace change, and an inability to react to disruptions. I couldn’t agree … Continued
Read moreFamily Business 101: Succession Done Right
Poorly managed family business successions have destroyed untold amounts of value in individual businesses and ripped countless families apart. Don’t let your business or your family fall victim to the same traps that have haunted business owners for generations. Even the most successful family businesses often fail to address two golden rules of succession: Plan … Continued
Read moreUnlock Hidden Value: 4 Lessons from Walmart
In HBR, Leslie Dach provides some invaluable advice to executives in his column, “Don’t Spin a Better Story. Be a Better Company.” While the advice, based on his experience at Walmart, is focused on how to effectively and authentically respond to negative PR, the insight is also powerful for unlocking hidden value in organizations. Here’s … Continued
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