Continuing Education

What Is A Company’s Profit Design

The Need for an Improved Profit Design is Challenge #2 and it shows up first in Stage 3, then repeatedly ...
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Financial Literacy with the Profit Zone Program

Several of you are trained in a program I developed called Zeroing in on Your Company’s Profit Zone. It’s a ...
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Language of Growth Quiz

I kick off all of my X-Rays with the Language of Growth Quiz. Here’s why:   You are able to ...
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Not Able to Quickly Get Systems and Procedures in Place

This is Challenge #25 and it shows up in Stage 4 for a very good reason. To function effectively, a ...
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What’s In a Name? Stage 6 and Stage 7

In my last email, I explained the value of understanding the Names of each Stage of Growth™. I’ve covered Stage ...
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What’s In a Name? Stage 4 & Stage 5

In my last email, I explained the value of understanding the Names of each Stage of Growth™. I’ve overed Stage ...
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What’s In A Name? Stage 3

Start-Up, Ramp Up, Delegation, Professional, Integration, Strategic, Visionary ……. When I first started learning the concepts underneath Fischer’s research, I ...
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What’s In A Name? Stage 1 and Stage 2

Start-Up, Ramp Up, Delegation, Professional, Integration, Strategic, Visionary ……. When I first started learning the concepts underneath Fischer’s research, I ...
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Take This Stages of Growth Quiz

Do you know why the Builder/Protector ratio is 3:2 in Stage 4? Do you know it’s the ONLY time the ...
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The Value of Our Predictive Model

In one of our refresher training sessions, we were talking about how we can differentiate ourselves in the marketplace because ...
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Visionary, Manager, Specialist: Valuable Hidden Agent

A couple of years ago, in working with a CEO of a Stage 3 company, we talked about the 3 ...
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The Four Rules that Govern the 7 Stages of Growth

It shocked me the other day when I realized I hadn’t talked to you yet about the Four Rules of ...
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X-Ray vs Strategic Planning

Alignment. Engagement. Implementation. Without these a company will flounder. But as many companies get ready to conduct their Strategic Planning ...
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Why Your Solution Needs to be An X-Ray

Since you are a part of the growth curve community, you know that the 7 Stages of Growth is the ...
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What Revelations Reveal

Do you make sure to capture the Revelations after each X-Ray? This is a critical part of the overall Stages ...
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The Impact of the 7 Stages of Growth

You may ask the question: The research Fischer did was quite a while ago. Is it still relevant? Can I ...
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Presentation on Employee Engagement

Several years ago I made a presentation to a group of CEOs. My goal was to introduce the concepts of ...
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What Are Hidden Agents?

Can you explain to a CEO what a Hidden Agent is? Here are some talking points you can use in ...
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Sales – You Gotta Have a Pitch!

In my Stage 2 book “Sales Ramp Up: How to Kick Start Performance and Adapt to Chaos”, I talk about ...
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Promote Financial Literacy

Several of you are trained in a program I developed called Zeroing in on Your Company’s Profit Zone. It’s a ...
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