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Are The 12 Warning Signs of Success™ Holding You Back?

March 25th, 2010 by Kirk Dando. Leave A Comment »

As a company matures, it often experiences subtle but very troubling growing pains (Warning Signs of Success). As you might expect, these growth tremors are amplified in a depressed market. Compounding the situation, management, in its haste to maintain growth, often fixes its gaze outward on the environment and toward the future, hoping perhaps that more precise market projections and better ‘relational selling’ tactics will provide the organization with the impetus it needs to go to the next level of performance.

All the while, the company may overlook the Overly Obvious and Embarrassingly Simple repairs it needs to mature and stabilize.

The current market dynamics offer the perfect time to refocus and redefine you and your company’s success strategies. Generally, companies tend to pass through a series of developmental phases (The Business Lifecycle™) as they mature. Transitions between these phases do not always occur naturally or smoothly, regardless of the strength or expertise of top management.

Unfortunately, as a company reaches the point where it needs to move into the next phase of development, it can become vulnerable… Read More >

Where’s your company on The Business Lifecycle™?

March 2nd, 2010 by Kirk Dando. Leave A Comment »

Part 1 in a Series of 4

The Business Lifecycle™ is a model that enables business leaders to identify the level of performance at which their business is operating and to determine exactly what needs to be done to move that business to the next level.

The Business Lifecycle™ is based on my and many other’s years of experience and is an approximation of how successful businesses grow and some of the problems (The 12 Warning Signs of Success™) they encounter in their efforts to become what I call a mature, financially stable, professionally managed and led business (Level III).  From my experience this should be the objective of all growth hungry businesses.

By having a sensitivity and general understanding of the stages of develoment in The Business Lifecycle™ managers  will be in a position to predict problems and thereby prepare solutions and coping strategies to help the company go to the next level before a crisis gets out of hand.

Companies tend to pass through a series of predictable developmental phases as they mature.  Transitions between these phases do not always occur naturally or… Read More >