Good business grows.
In today’s environment, one thing is clear. Business can do good and do well.
An entrepreneurial strategy for your business that involves mission, purpose, and value for your employees, stakeholders and customers is essential to tending a high growth environment.
Root Structure
Collaboration
Recognize that your team is your most essential asset. Work in horizontal structure that allows leadership from all levels, recognizing the value of mentorship and skills expansion.
Transparency
Commit to a clear understanding of the focus on the business, the roles of your team members, and consistent communication with customers, stakeholders, and team members.
Integrity
Elevate integrity above all else. By reducing punitive responses to mistakes, challenges, and concerns, abandon the CYA culture that precludes success for every member of the team.
Data-Driven
Focus on Data-driven decision making, when combined with intuition, is essential for success. Do not operate in a vacuum.
Results-Oriented
Deliver results and eliminate redundant processes or unnecessary business habits. Allow the goal to dictate the actions taken on a daily basis.
Inspiration-Led
Lead with inspiration and determination behind your goals. We align with this and focus on results and data to create success.
Growth Notes
Growth Notes is Summers’ bimonthly entries about flourishing business practices and sustainable strategic growth.
Your vision, realized.
Strategic Growth.
Determine the tools you need to grow your opportunity. Identify missing elements in your business strategy. Determine missing expertise or under utilized opportunities. Learn to negotiate for the value you deserve from the value you create.
Unlock Lucrative Success.
The key to lucrative success is not just great ideas. It is strategic business development and a plan for effective execution. You must have a path to growth. Every entrepreneur reaches a certain point in their business when they need help determining how to grow to the next level. Ambitious goal setting, resource development, and team alignment are required.
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“I help good things grow.”
Summers McKay, CEO - The Optimist Daily