Perspectives

October 20, 2021
How does a company choose the right strategies and implementation to ensure they not only weather a crisis but come out ahead?
Every business needs to pivot at some point: How to quantify your odds of success
September 15, 2021
Like many new MBAs, I started out as a “strategy guy.” My first consulting gig was with a strategy boutique that created powerful insights. We developed elegant strategies for our clients. But a lot of those strategies stayed in the binders we had prepared, and the majority found a permanent and dusty spot on the CEO’s shelf. Because while this boutique was great at the front end of the strategy process, they gave short shrift to what it really took to make bold recommendations a reality.
I used to be a “strategy guy”…
April 15, 2020
“Where do I start?” It’s a question I hear a lot from clients in growth mode.
3 management clarity hacks for rapid growth companies
September 4, 2019
Contrary to what we usually hear, about 80% of small businesses do survive the first year. But only 50% make it through the first 5 years.
Growth companies: Stars, Slow-Growers or Dropouts?
June 15, 2020
Now that you’re past the startup phase and you’re a growth-stage company rocketing up the growth curve, is how you're managing your decision making keeping up?
From Founder to Growth-Stage CEO: the Delegation Dilemma
October 15, 2020
Many companies discover that their scaling journey is accompanied by operational and process breakdowns. Don't let finger pointing derail your momentum!
Are your processes and people keeping up with your rapid growth?
September 15, 2020
The very success that companies achieve in gaining market traction also plants the seeds of their own potential failure.
The Irony of Growth
August 15, 2020
As your company grows, adding dozens of people quickly, and the stresses of growth multiply, your culture gets tested. Can you pass the test?
Organizational Culture in Growth-Stage Companies: Beyond poster slogans
December 15, 2020
The CEO of a fast-growing professional services company told me growth was great but things were going “off track.”
Strategy by chance not choice (focusitis)
July 15, 2020
If you’re on your company’s leadership team, you know first-hand that the pandemic has shown how a sustained crisis adds urgency and weight to just about every decision you make. These tough economic times bring into focus flaws and gaps that were tolerable and even unnoticed in “easier” times – but not any longer.
How to Ensure Your Organizational Culture Grows with Your Company
Among the many people handing out opinions about life after this year’s multiple emergencies are those predicting the end of globalization. The chaos of the last six months, they argue, will throw globalization into reverse. Goodbye to the free movement of goods and people and ideas.In moments of crisis predictions about the future are seldom accurate. But it’s safe to say Davos Man, the creature of globalization, isn’t going anywhere.
Davos Man Needs A Rethink
Our pandemic has revealed the desire of nearly all of us for a shared sense of mission, a better version of ourselves. Put another way, it has accelerated a reckoning with our broken systems that has been on its way for a long time.
Conditions for a Better Capitalism
What you can expect...
​- Help to prioritize what you need, when you need it, and a game plan to get sustainable growth done.

- Access to subject-matter experts to fill key expertise gaps and bring you the right resources to implement your growth goals.

- Hands-on facilitation with your teams to implement the initiatives that will move your growth agenda forward quickly and efficiently.

- Confidence that you'll achieve the results you want over the next 6 - 12 months.

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