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A small Scottish company shows how being famous for something works
I recently discussed how you must be famous for something. If you're famous for something it is easier to: focus on what you can be the best at, find your "tribe," tell people what you do, get referred, and define your core customer While we all know of companies...
Are you optimizing Your Cash Conversion Cycle for growth?
Companies need cash to grow. If your cash conversion cycle is too long, you may not be able to finance your growth. Here is how to reduce it.
You Have to be Famous For Something
In a meeting last week, one of my Vistage members discussed his expansion into a new business area and how to price his services. The way he described the new market was comprehensive. As usual in Vistage, this lead to a great discussion challenging his assumptions...
How do you price your products and services?
Many businesses do not take full advantage of the value they offer to price effectively. Many struggle to price at a point that makes them a great margin. Here is a way to look at it see where you can price to improve your business.
Do you know your Profit per X to drive dramatic growth?
I recently facilitated a workshop with several CEOs where we worked on the dramatic business growth model components. One of the questions that I had asked them beforehand was, "What is Your Profit/X?" The results showed that there this concept is not clear to many....
Five Ways to Attract Prospective Employees
There is a war for talent. How do you attract talent to your company and have them apply for jobs there? You have to show why they should consider you, who you want, what you offer, and how your current employees feel.
Are you killing your firm’s WFH productivity?
Productivity remained during WFH with COVID. However, further analysis found that hourly productivity fell and was compensated for by employees working more hours. What was the culprit – Meetings. Want to increase productivity, have fewer meetings.
EOS is just that, an Operating System
For those of you who are not aware of EOS, it is the Entrepreneurial Operating System. It seeks to improve businesses by getting six components aligned to enhance business operations. The six are: the vision the people the issues traction - meetings and goals...
What has COVID done to Company Culture?
COVID has affected everyone. However, companies need to examine if they have lived their core values during COVID, how they are reinforcing them in a WFH environment, and especially with the onboarding of new hires.
Profit ≠ Cash Flow
Knowing how much cash you generate is essential for planning for growth. Too many companies don’t know and when they grow they find they are continually running out of cash. Understand your cash flow generation and how to improve it through improvements in your Cash Conversion Cycle and using the Power of One.
What Are Your Critical and Counter Critical Numbers?
The key to achieving long term goals is to define short term goals that lead you there. Focusing those short term goals around a key metric is essential. However, ensure that the metric will not lead other areas astray by having an appropriate counter critical metric act as a counter balance.
Hopefully, Your Firm Doesn’t Claim a Family Culture
Defining an organization’s culture as a “Family” culture reflects tolerance to subpar performance. Rather focus on those characteristics of a “family” culture that you want.
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