Strategic Thinking
Building Your Company’s Value
Building for exit (a.k.a. enterprise) value optimization is a great way to build a highly valuable business regardless of your interest in selling it or not someday. Here is a relatively comprehensive list of areas to address in priority order to optimize exit value and build a healthy and thriving company. Things that drive exit value: Reduce…
READ MORE...Get Sales Strategy In Place….NOW!
In order to have an effective sales staff and successful sales numbers within your company, requires a very intentional and meticulous undertaking. Your company needs a sales strategy that you and your salespeople can implement time and time again that will generate abundant business ventures. It is not easy to turn these plans into action…
READ MORE...Company Must Have: Big Hairy Audacious Goal!
We all know that goals are vital for everyone; one thing that sets an outstanding company apart from the others is the way they set objectives. Great companies set great goals. James Collins and Jerry Porras wrote in their book ‘Built to Last’, about BHAG, which stands for ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal’. A BHAG is…
READ MORE...The Power of your Brand Promise
What is your brand’s promise? Not your brand’s slogan, logo, package, or image…those aren’t promises, they are marketing tools. Your brand promise is everything a brand is, everything it does, everything it stands for, and every way it affects the life of your customer. A strong brand promise is one that connects your purpose, your…
READ MORE...Do You Know the Power of One?
Sometimes it is the little things that can make a huge difference. What would happen if you could just lose one pound per month? In just 3 years you could go from 200 pounds to 165 pounds, without any major diet or crazy lifestyle change. Just some focus and a few minor tweaks to eating…
READ MORE...4 Commitments a Leader Should Make
Every leader should make a few commitments to themselves, their people and their organization. Here are four that should be on your list. To Learn Be open and willing to become better, open to new ideas and willing to grow Find a mentor to help you Be a mentor to future leaders of the organization…
READ MORE...Could this be your holiday wish list or New Year’s resolution?
The month of December is always an interesting time. Form some it is a frantic, hectic time, trying to get projects or money leftover from the budget spent. For others it is a quiet time, one of reflection and planning for the year ahead. At the start of each year most individuals create a list…
READ MORE...Communication with successful Emails!
In a relatively short amount of time, the Internet has gone from a sporadic tool to one of the primary ways we entertain ourselves, do our work, and communicate. To take it one step further, the growth in mobile phone use also suggests that we are nurturing our in boxes on our mobile phones multiple…
READ MORE...Could this be your holiday wish list or New Year’s resolution?
The month of December is always an interesting time. Form some it is a frantic, hectic time, trying to get projects or money leftover from the budget spent. For others it is a quiet time, one of reflection and planning for the year ahead. At the start of each year most individuals create a list…
READ MORE...Inspiring your team during the holidays
With the New Year fast approaching, it’s an ideal time to evaluate your teams’ performance from the past year and inspire your employees to kick-start 2015 with a bang. As the days grow shorter and the weather gets colder people look forward to quality time with family and friends during the holidays. This is the…
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