"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy
HEADLINES:
Monthly Meeting About Cash! -- My latest "Growth Guy" column discusses the specifics for running a monthly meeting (I didn't do a good job in my book). This meeting is KEY to getting your DNA passed down to your middle management and strengthening their understanding of the business. And at your next monthly meeting, take a couple hours and discuss how you're going to generate more cash in the next twelve months -- cash is king, particularly now! Here's a link to the article and it's also reprinted below under DETAILS. (http://www.gazelles.com/columns/middlemanagement.pdf)
Save Cash! -- Complimentary Holiday Gifts -- We're offering to pay for your holiday business gifts again this year (Canada and US only because of shipping costs). Send us a list of your best customers, suppliers, and entrepreneurial friends and we'll send them an autographed copy of my book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits as a gift FROM YOU! During tough times the disciplined win -- hopefully they'll see this gift as a way to strengthen their business which will help your business. (http://gazelles.com/business_growth.html) Please email Joanne Costello with your list: jcostello@gazelles.com.
Increase Cash! -- "Cash" Webinar Dec 5, 12:28pm -- 1:30pm -- participate in the last of our four part complimentary (save cash) webinar series based on our Four Decisions model -- People, Strategy, Execution, Cash -- and our four one-page tools. Rich Russakoff, who authored chapter ten in my book on bank financing, will be joining me. He's continuing to get banks to compete to give loans to his clients, even during these tight financial credit times while focusing on strategies for generating internal cash - again, cash is king during times like this.(https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/775463127)
No-Compromise on Cash! -- and if you're looking for an excellent quick read, get a copy of Neil Ducoff's new book No-Compromise Leadership: A Higher Standard of Leadership, Thinking, and Behavior. I particularly liked Chapter 5 where he focuses on profit and cash. Highly endorsed by gurus Jack Stack, John DiJulius, Bo Burlingham and dozens of other growth company thought leaders, I like his strong message about "just not compromising" on performance, customer service, cash flow, etc. - it was a message I needed to hear myself! Just do it! (http://www.gazelles.com/book-no-compromise.html)
Spend a Little Cash! -- Success for Teens -- I received this note from Vernon Menard III, co-founder of Charlotte-based Choice Translating who went back after the Growth Summit and introduced the Success for Teens book into a local high school (50 books for $50 which includes workbook): (http://www.choicetranslating.com/) (http://www.successfoundation.org/)
"I wanted to share a quick story about how "can-do" people can work together to make a real difference in the world. I know a Teach for America volunteer at West Charlotte High School. I gave him a copy of the Success Foundation book I got in Atlanta (Growth Summit) to evaluate and told him that if he felt the program might work in his class or throughout his school, Choice Translating would provide as many books as needed. He reviewed the book and he LOVED it. He proposed the idea to his principal... and he LOVED it. It seems we may have the entire student body of West Charlotte High School in the program starting January 2009. (http://www.successfoundation.org/)
Also, a good friend of mine is a good friend of Dr. Peter Gorman, the superintendent of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, and CMS is a Choice Translating client. There is a fair chance we can have a rather large number of schools participate if the West Charlotte experiment delivers results.
At Choice Translating we like to say that we "change the world, one word at a time." I'll keep you posted on our progress. Thanks for allowing the Success Foundation to speak at the growth summit!"
Vernon - thanks. It is entrepreneurs that will change the world!