Welcome to The Warning Signs of Success™

January 5th, 2010 by Kirk Dando. Leave A Comment »

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My hope is this blog will become a must-read guide for you and other business leaders at all levels, from the boardroom to the mailroom.  It is a distillation of more than 20 years of my hands-on experience, including:

* Serving as CFO/COO for a business we quickly grew to over $1 billion dollars in annual revenues and eventually sold,
* Personally interviewing thousands of business executives and their teams about how they grew their businesses and the difficulties they faced,
* Spending years in one-on-one meetings with hundreds of CEO’s and their teams, counseling them on issues they felt they could not share with anyone else,
* Sitting on and chairing several high-profile boards of directors,
* Learning from my own successes that grew out of BIG and PAINFUL failures
* Building a thriving coaching practice focused on helping business leaders (at all levels) take their company, themselves and their career to the next level, and
* Reading everything I could get my hands on about scaling a business and successful leadership.

My goal is to help you maintain (or rekindle) the excitement and motivation for passionately pursuing your dream and make a difference in your business and the lives of those you lead every day.

The Warning Signs of Success™ is meant to guide you toward becoming the leader you most admire and to live the legacy you most want to leave.  I’m including true stories and case studies that I believe will inspire you by demonstrating what has and, just as importantly, what has not worked for other leaders.

Yes, you can build a business that can scale to the next level without becoming frustrated, and feel lonely, by having to learn everything the hard way. Through this blog I will show you how to go from growing a business haphazardly to strategically creating a scalable business. I will help you redefine your role as a leader, so you can go from being a problem-solver to a leader who predicts the problems before they show up in the results. So many times, results that look like success (increased revenue, increased headcount, more customers, etc.) unknowingly set us up for failure.  I will help you create successes that lead to more successes, rather than unpredicted chaos.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I invite you to send me the specific questions and concerns you have about the frustrations and loneliness you are experiencing while trying to scale your business to the next level.  I will answer your questions (without mentioning names) on the Warning Signs of Success™.  Please enter your questions in Leave a Comment, along with any other comments you may have about what you have just read or what you would like to read about in future blogs.

STOP that nagging feeling that you are spending far too much time wrestling with the ghosts from haphazard growth and START building a business that can scale to the next level.  The road to heaven (a scalable business) does go through hell (chaotic growth)…and it’s worth it.  Make the choice to make it a day trip instead of a daily trip!

Thank you for visiting, please come again!

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