Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Dysfunction: When looking forward, project key organizational dysfunctions. When feeding growth, do they disappear or become potential threats? You growth strategy must account for these weaknesses. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Dysfunction

Evolving Companies ~ Assess Personal Sacrifice: Reality is your vision will not go exactly as planned. Assess the amount of work, time, and finances you are willing to commit. Draw those as hard lines to use later (when emotionally vested) as guideposts to know when to step back or even walk away. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Personal Sacrifice

Evolving Companies ~ Assess Scalability: How agile is your plan to scale up and down in response to market demand, funding, or physical ability to grow? Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Scalability

Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity: Simplify before a period of growth. Complexity will slow down or even stagnate growth. Simplicity brings clarity and makes change faster and easier to execute. Simplicity increases your agility. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity

Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Leadership: Certain leaders can grow but others can’t. When growing your organizations, include staff changes and succession planning. Else you’ll be forced to replace staff under often tenuous circumstances. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Leadership