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Are You Ready for Growth?
Michael Van Horn
#13 in the series.
Why do some businesses grow rapidly while others struggle for growth and profitability? The difference often lies within the noggin of the owner. You are the biggest asset of your business, and likely the biggest bottleneck as well.
Here are questionnaires and exercises to help you evaluate your growth readiness, and to learn what is required for growing your company. The companion workbook, Build a Culture of Growth, describes a “mindset for growth” and gives you exercises and other aids to help you apply these principles to your business.
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Topics covered
Assessment #1
1. The Business Viability Test
2. The More You Can Let Go, the More You Can Grow. 18 rules
Assessment #2
1. What is your Growth Readiness?
2. How does your company rate on these keys determinants of growth?
3. How Big—and How Fast—Do You Want to Grow?
4. Requirements for a Culture of Growth
5. Are You and Your People on the Same Page?
Assessment #3
1. What is your Profitability Potential?
2. Low Profitability Diagnosis
3. Where do you have the most problems with profitability?
Assessment #4
1. How well do you operate with “ease”?
2. How can you increase the ease with which you run your company?
3. Where do you have the most problems with ease of operation?
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Topics covered
A mindset for growth, profitability, and ease. Contrast with self-defeating management habits
How to change your management practices, habits, attitudes and beliefs (M-PHABs)
How to tackle contradictory attitudes
How to change the dynamic between you and your managers
How to change a vicious circle into a virtuous ladder
Low profitability diagnosis sheet
How to make the changes stick
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Can you change the work habits and attitudes of others?
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A team can work on itself.
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Templates and exercise sheets
Warm up exercise
From the workbook
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