Continuing Education
Early Warning System
I remember March 2000 when the dotcom economy collapsed. What had started back in 1969 as ARPANET, had grown into ...
Critical Discussion Points for the 27 Challenges
I fielded a question the other day about the 27 Challenges and the facilitation of this report during an X-Ray ...
Costs to Deliver an X-Ray
There is a resource on the GCS Membership Site called: X-Ray Program Time Estimate You’ll find it under the Resource ...
Communication is a Strategic Advantage
Companies spend billions of dollars on recruiting and interviewing, hoping they’ll hire the very best. Every day, business owners face the ...
Closing the Sale
Recently, one of you mentioned that the time it took from when you first started talking to a CEO about ...
Chaotic Periods Destabilize the Company
This is Challenge #17 and it shows up in Stage 1 for obvious reasons. However, with the challenges of the ...
5 Blind Spots Creating Obstacles to Growth
As a business owner, we face the same issues our clients face, right? We have to create a plan that ...
Stages of Growth Doesn’t Resonate
The title of this week’s email is actually a statement a GCS shared with me, looking for answers. The point ...
Leadership Is Lacking
According to Jeffrey Pfeffer, the author of Leadership BS and fourteen other books on leadership, ‘there is often some degree ...
Unclear Values Throughout the Organization
This is Challenge #15 and shows up in Stage 3 at a time when a CEO needs all the help ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
