Company and Leadership Growth-UTSA

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“Everything is a process and everyone needs their time in it.”

Bill Morrow

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The Business Lifecycle™

• Growth Indicators:– Quantity of Employees– Additional Revenue– Equipment/Facilities– Etc.

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The Business Lifecycle™

LeadershipSystems

Growing Pains

Permanent Small Business

1

2

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The Gap

Revenue

Profit The

Gap

Expenses

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The Business Lifecycle™

• Leadership• Systems

Growing Pains

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2

• Management Team

Crisis

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The Business Lifecycle™

• Leadership• Systems

Growing Pains

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2

• Management Team• Systems

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The Gap

Revenue

Profit The

Gap

Expenses

Profit

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The Business Lifecycle™

2

• Management Team• Systems

3

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The Business Lifecycle™

2

3

1

10%

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Hedgehog Focus

What You Can Be Best In Class at

What You are Deeply Passionate

About

What Drives Your

Economic Engine

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Leadership Must’s

• Have a Vision

• Work to a Plan

• Make the Tough Calls

• Make the Most of Being Yourself

• Get Over Yourself

• Hire Well Enough to Delegate

• Be a Great Communicator

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“He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.”

EffectivenessSuccess WITHOUT Leadership

Leadership

Hard work

Effectiveness

Success WITH Leadership

Hard work

Leadership

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The higher the level of leadership people want to reach- the greater the sacrifices they will have to make…

To go up, you have to give up! Le

ader

ship

Personal Rights

Responsibilities

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A Leader Is One Who:

• Sees More than Others See

• Sees Farther than Others See

• Sees Before Others Do

• Sees What Really Matters

• Does Something About It

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The Warrior Mentality

“The very fight to survive is truly created by our culture.”

Colleen Barrett – Southwest Airlines

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Components of Victory

1. Unity of Vision

2. Diversity of Skills

3. A Leader Dedicated to Victory and Raising Players to Their Potential

You’ve got to have great athletes to WIN! I don’t care who the coach is – you can’t win without good athletes, but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes a difference.

Lou Holtz

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THE COUNCIL

And the Culture

Of Learning

Dialogue & Debate

Executive Decisions

Autopsies & Debate

Ask Questions: Guided by the Three Circles

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Where are we going and how do we get there?

Past FutureToday

C LEVEL: Strategic direction; seeing past, present, future

B LEVEL: Planning work

A LEVEL: Doing work

Levels of Abstraction

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“A Good Leader Remains Focused... Controlling Your Direction Is Better Than Being Controlled By It!”

Jack Welch

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“We have a ‘strategic plan.’ It’s called doing things.”

Herb Kelleher

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Words to live by

Revenue Solves alot more Problems than

Financing

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Build your base or else. . .

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Although obvious, you must implement the following key solutions for your company to mature, grow and stabilize.

1. Strong leadership and management team

2. Appropriate systems for the size and complexity of the business

3. Focused market niche and strategy that is realistic

4. A set of financial systems and goals that are properly balanced between profit, cash flow and equity building.

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Great Reading…

• 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership – Maxwell• Where Value Hides – Stuart Jackson• Good to Great – Collins• Fred Factor – Mark Sanborn