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The problem of Treadmill is the business has begun to lose or even suppress the visionary risk-taking that brought it this far. It is often so subtle that most within the organization don't even notice, and those outside of the organization (especially stockholders) will likely be happier than ever. What no one realizes is that the fate of the entire organization is decided in Treadmill.
Predictable Success is where you, as the leader, can put your foot on the gas pedal, and the whole organization moves forward. You found the tools, made the necessary changes, and in Predictable Success, you reap the rewards. You can keep your business in Predictable Success for the long-haul using these four key strategies!
Why is second stage growth so hard for businesses to achieve? They take off like a rocket, grow like crazy, and steal business from bigger competitors every step of the way. Then all of a sudden, they find the growth slowing, profitability slipping, and people in the company fighting with each other, and they just can't seem to get ahead of it.If this sounds familiar, welcome to Whitewater.
The second stage in the Predictable Success Lifecycle is Fun. It's an incredible time for the business. During this time, businesses often achieve double-digit and triple-digit annual growth as they break free from gravity and rocket out of Early Struggle. Here's how to make the most of it!
Do you ever just wish you could see around the "next corner" for your business? Have you ever been blindsided by a major challenge that seemed to come out of nowhere? But in hindsight, you realized it had been brewing for a long, long time; you just didn't see it coming.
None of us are asking the right question. Our natural leadership style biases our thinking to one of these four questions: Why? What? How? and Who? It’s a classic case of, to a hammer, everything is a nail. But we all know you can’t build an entire house with only a hammer (at least not a house most of us would want to live in). So in this article we’ll pull all four together with the one most important question almost no one is asking.
Day two of your executive offsite is where the rubber meets the road and where discussion transforms into action! You’ll pick up right where you left off in day one, with goals. As the day progresses, you and your team will get increasingly precise until you've boiled those goals down to the specific, actionable tasks that you can assign to your team members.
If you look close enough you will find a lack of critical optimism at the root of just about every problem you are facing as a business leader. However, despite its importance, critical optimism is incredibly rare. In this article, I’ll show you what it is and how you can embed it in your company culture.
The only point of having a meeting is to make great decisions and take action on those decisions. If you find yourself constantly having meetings but failing to follow through and take action, in this article you’ll find three simple steps to eliminate the problem permanently.
In a rapidly growing business, there is so much to accomplish every single day. The last thing you want to do is waste time in unproductive meetings. Many well-meaning leaders, feeling the pressure to produce, discover that skipping out on team meetings or canceling them all together is an easy way to buy back some much-needed time. But what does it cost you?
There are six common traps that founders and entrepreneurs unknowingly fall prey to during the early days of their new business. The first step to avoiding them is knowing that they exist.
As humans, we grow up, reach our prime, and then walk the road of wisdom as a simple function of time. In other words, we grow old. However, businesses don't face the same sort of mandatory aging. Instead, your business can, in theory, stay in top form for as long as you'd like. Here's how you and your business can defy the laws of gravity for as long as you (and even your successors) would like!
