The Agile Scaleup

Power of Punishment; Simplicity Upgrade; Air It Out; 3rd Quarter Theme?

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HEADLINES:

"Focus & Simplify" -- when Michelangelo was asked how he created David out of stone his response was "It's simple; I just removed everything that doesn't look like David." It was this famous line that inspired the Q2-Q3 Theme "Focus and Simplify" for online media firm BGT Partners. Notes CEO and Co-Founder David Clarke "He (Michelangelo) removed what was not essential to achieve perfection. This is a very meaningful statement and permeates not just how we think and what we do - but how we live."

Growth Brings Complexity -- continues Clarke "BGT is growing bigger and more complex. We need to consciously beat back the tide of complexity, inefficiency, and bloat, and decide if what we are doing is the simplest way to achieve the best results." As such, Clarke has asked everyone in his company, throughout each project, to ask themselves if the process they are following is absolutely core to the goal of the project. If not, they are to question it with their manager or operations team."

Simplicity Upgrade -- seeking a "simplicity upgrade", until the end of 3rd Quarter (September) associates can go to an internal webpage called BGTDamnand share ideas for simplifying their collaboration, communication, process, or technology. Specifically, Clarke asked employees to:

Think and Question. Is what you are doing most effective?

• Can ten hours of research be resolved with one client phone call?
• Do we need three concepts or just one really great one?
• Are the features we are creating, creating clutter and confusion?
• When a client sees our work, do they get it right away?

"Air it Out" Meetings -- Concludes Clarke in a note to employees "Please, please submit your ideas via BGTDamn, talk to your managers, talk to me! Between your manager, myself, your daily huddles, department weekly meetings in my office, BGTDamn, and the 'air it out' monthly lunches, there's no excuse for you to keep any ideas, concerns, questions to yourself. Share them so we can address them and act on them, helping BGT evolve."

Power of Punishment -- not all themes need a positive reward. Nashville-based Parthenon Publishing is using a "Wheel of Shame" to encourage people to use their project management system called 5PM. Punishments have included (links are to short videos):

• Jacky working the corner (no, not like that) while holding up a sign that said "Honk if you love 5PM until she got a honk. (She managed that in about 10 seconds. Because she is a professional.)
• Ashley reciting an original poem about 5PM during huddle.
• Joe participating in huddle fully mummified (and quite dizzy from being spun around while wrapping).
• Bobby singing all of his huddle answers. (Mr. Stark has a little vibrato in him, it turns out.)
• Carlton taking a smoked oyster & clam juice shooter.

Tripled Usage -- notes Ashley Akin, Senior Content Strategist, in her blog "The first week we implemented this system our 5PM usage tripled and our mistakes diminished by some equally ridiculous percentage (we weren't keeping track of mistakes before, but we know we were in failing territory). Making the process accountability-driven, yet fun and communal, made us successful. So the next time your employees are having trouble making it work, don't reward them with donuts when they deliver; let them get creative and dole out the punishments to those who don't. Nothing renews a person's commitment to company protocol like eating a diaper full of oatmeal." Yuck - but effective!! Thanks for their Gazelles coach Andy Bailey for sharing.

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Buffett Formula; Benetton India; Speed Wire Details; Two Master Practitioner Classes;

"...out-learning the competition" 

HEADLINES:

It's easy to come home, sit on the couch, watch TV and zone out until bed time rolls around. But that's not really going to help you get smarter.
	Shane Parrish The Buffett Formula

Benetton India Best Place to Work -- for the second year in a row, implementing the Rockefeller Habits, Sanjeev Mohanty, Managing Director of Benetton India and his team have won the prestigious "Best Places to Work" recognition. Notes Sanjeev "in tough market conditions we have grown profits by 70% CAGR for the last 3 years!" They also received special recognition for their rewards and recognition process. Congrats to Sanjeev and his team!!

Whitepaper: More Details on Hiring 300 -- I received several requests for more details on how Kevin Donnelly, CEO of Speed Wire, used Topgrading to streamline the recruiting and hiring of 300 outstanding installers in one year (and now hiring another 400). Below is a link to a short whitepaper on Kevin's Topgrading process including an online tool he's using to shorten the interviewing process (and a video case study on Nurse Next Door) - scroll to the bottom of this link.

Upgrade Your Skills this Summer -- Gazelles is offering two Master Practitioner certificate courses - a chance to invest in yourself and upgrade your management skills from the comfort of your desk or home - one on Topgrading (interviewing is one of the two most important skills of effective leaders - negotiation skills being the other) and the other on the new Rockefeller Habits. Best if at least one person in each company has their Master Practitioner certificate in each course. Details below.

Topgrading Master Practitioner Class -- the war for talent is on and to win the battle growing companies are using the Topgrading hiring method. Enroll for the next 12-week Topgrading course, which starts June 27 (though all sessions are recorded so you can listen at your own pace and schedule). Includes 3 hours of online coarse work taught by Brad Smart, the creator of Topgrading; 6 online interactive webinars with a Topgrading coach so you get your questions answered (or listen to on your own time); a personal coach for a one-on-one session; and access to the online tools Kevin used to speed up the Topgrading interview process.

Rockefeller Habits Master Practitioner Class -- this class, starting July 2 (again, recorded), features the new and upgraded tools and methodologies that have helped thousands of companies grow their businesses. Using a proprietary hybrid-educational-model that blends three key learning components - Theory, Certified Training, and Guided Implementation - the class guides you over 12 weeks through a process to complete your One Page Strategic Plan and implement the tools and disciplines to execute it. Specifically:

• THEORY: Starts with an 8+ Hour Online Training Video of me teaching a 2.5-day private workshop to YPO in Dallas.
• CERTIFIED TRAINING: 7 live Online and Interactive 60 minute Webinars with Chuck Kocher, Gazelles Certified Coach.
• GUIDED IMPLEMENTATION: Through the webinars and a 90 min one on one call with Chuck or another Gazelles Certified Coach, you will work on the new and updated 4 Decisions tools and One Page Strategic Plan.
• REFERENCE LIBRARY: All Class Experience will be recorded and placed in a private Web-Portal for you and your team to use and reference in the future.

Experience the 1st class complementary @ http://www.growthinstitute.com/rockefeller/

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SxE=R; Cost of Mistrust; 1000 Applicants; Stephen M.R. Covey; Think EI

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HEADLINES:  

Mistrust doubles the cost of doing business.
	Professor John Whitney Columbia Business School

War for Talent -- take 1 minute to scan these 5 tips for hiring and keeping the best young talent - my latest Venture column in Fortune. And see what Quik Trip has done to keep 13,000 frontline employees happy - details below.

Global Middle Class -- this is why I'm bullish -- this 2 minute video produced by the BBC outlines the facts and figures re: the new Global Middle Class (defined as earning $10 - $100 per day). Like what the baby boom did for the US; an expansion from 1.8 billion to 3.2 billion by 2020 and 4.9 billion by 2020 (3.2 billion of whom are in Asia!) of the middle class will raise all boats - so long as you're on the right side of this tsunami. Watch the video to see which country will have the largest Middle Class. Thanks to IESE Professor and serial entrepreneur Conor Neill for sharing.

The Speed of Trust -- when there is trust - between partners, with suppliers and customers, among employees - then everything goes faster. And speed is one of the most important competitive weapons. I've seen it among my own team of CEOs. When trust is high, we can get decisions made quickly; when there's distrust, everything slows down. And costs go up!! That's why trust is far from a 'nice to have" in business - and why it's at the base of Pat Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions pyramid. Everything starts with trust.

Stephen M.R. Covey -- son of the late Stephen R. Covey of 7 Habits fame, M.R. wrote The Speed of Trust, one of those classics every business leader should read. Start four pages into the first chapter and read the sub-section entitled "The Crucible." He describes the merger between Franklin Quest and Covey, which he led, and how distrust made the deal painful. He then explains how he regained, in a one day meeting, the trust necessary to make it a successful venture. Book club members (and Gazelles 200 members) will get the book next week.

(SxE)T = R -- Covey suggests that in the classic equation Strategy times Execution equals Results, the hidden variable is Trust - and I couldn't agree more. Covey's book lays out in clear ways how to build and maintain trust. Go to chapter 2 and read the opening story - a story his father told in 7 Habits about his son (M.R.) and then get M.R.'s side of the story. He goes on to suggest that trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Most people think trust is just a function of character, but both are vital. This is a critical addition to what most people think of as trust i.e. the doctor you trust is the one getting great results, not just a nice person!!

See, Speak, Behave -- Covey outlines 5 waves of trust, a major organizing principle of the book - and goes on to note "from a pragmatic standpoint, I am equally convinced that speaking and behaving differently can have an enormous impact on the way you see and the results you get." His "See, Speak, Behave" cycle is another key framework in the book. The book is very well written and a quick read - and one that should be scanned once per year. Then come hear him present his ideas LIVE at the Growth Summit in Vegas Oct 22 - 23.

Generous Time Off -- the Zappos of convenient stores, $10 billion privately held QuikTrip builds trust with its 13,000 employees through an unheard of time-off policy for frontline employees. Notes John DiJulius (author of Secret Service) in his excellent blog "Not only do employees get from 10 to 25 vacation days a year (depending on tenure) plus 10 days of sick pay, they can buy two extra weeks off, and request an additional 10 days without pay, no questions asked. Rather than calling in sick on the morning of an absence, an employee can just request in advance a day off, giving management a heads-up opportunity to re-staff without a disruption of service. As a result, Quiktrip has created an "employer market" resulting in over 1,000 job applications a week." Here's a link to John's blog on this Fortune "Best Place to Work" company.

Best Employers 2013 -- and congrats to Employment Innovations in Sydney Australia for competing against much bigger and better-known companies and winning an Australian Aon Hewitt Best Employers 2013 award. Notes Ben Thompson, CEO, "...our engagement score of 85% was exceptional (and why we won). I have attributed our results to our awesome team culture, values and our disciplined execution of the Rockefeller Habits over the past 7 years." Congrats Ben!!

September - October Workshops Announced -- besides heading to Australia to lead workshops, Gazelles will be hosting workshops in 12 cities in North America. Updated list and links below.

Go for Growth - Verne Harnish

Sydney, AU - 10 September 2013
Brisbane, AU - 11 September 2013
Perth, AU - 12 September 2013

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits Workshops 2013

Los Angeles, CA - 24 September 2013
Miami, FL - 26 September 2013
Allentown, PA - 3 October 2013
Costa Mesa, CA - 3 October 2013
Austin, TX - 8 October 2013
Orlando, FL - 10 October 2013
Cleveland, OH - 15 October 2013
Denver, CO - 16 October 2013
Houston, TX - 16 October 2013
Tulsa, OK - 30 October 2013
Nashville, TN - 30 October 2013
WA, DC - 30 October 2013

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Hiring 300; Keeping Young Talent; Revenue Boosters Needed; June 27 Topgrading

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HEADLINES:  

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
	Australia's Army Chief re: sexual harassment

June 27 Topgrading Online Course -- more info below, but first...

Need Sales Hints -- next Fortune column is on boosting revenue, what I'm looking for listed below, but second...

You Get What You Accept -- many have heard the quote "you get what you inspect" but it's just as important to note that you get what you accept. What are you accepting right now in quality, performance, attitude, people, etc. that is not up to your standards! It's like last week's note about true strategy being what's on your calendar - actions need to match your words.

Recruiting Young Talent -- my latest Fortune Venture column is on the newsstands and online -- entitled "5 Steps to Find (and Keep) Young Stars." Thanks to Matthew Monahan, CEO of Inflection; Jeff Roman, National Director of Engineering, Little; Vernon Menard, COO of Choice Translating; and the CEO who wished to remain anonymous for suggesting these five ideas. The war for talent is upon us! Please take two minutes to scan the five ideas for attracting the top young talent and tips for sorting through the myriad of resumes you might get.

Hiring 300 Employees -- speaking of the war for talent, Speed Wire, a technology deployment contractor involved in the fast-growth "smart homes" field, has grown from 25 employees to 325 since last year. The company, based in Mineola, N.Y., will soon have 700 technicians in 30 markets. "I knew I had to get the hiring right or it would be a nightmare managing people down the road," says founder and CEO Kevin Donnelly, an EO member. How did his team outperform two other major competitors in a head-to-head challenge for the major firm they were all servicing (his NPS scores were so high, the major customer was astounded)?

Topgrading for Installers -- Donnelly has relied on Topgrading to find technicians who fit into a culture where, he says, "Everyone is excited about learning and getting involved in new technologies." He says he has been thrilled with the results his 10 recruiters have been getting by using Topgrading to find and select candidates for its training program. "We can't believe the caliber of people it has helped us put through," he says. "We couldn't have done it without Topgrading."

June 27 Topgrading Online -- If you're scaling up and need to hire one or 300 of the right people, the Gazelles Growth Institute's next online course in Topgrading starts June 27. Get someone internally certified (all from the comfort of their office - no travel) in the Topgrading methodology and access the new online interview tools which helped Donnelly crank through the number of interviews necessary to fill 300 positions. For more info, see

Revenue Boosters for Fortune column -- do any of you:

1. Require sales people to call in daily with an update?
2. Focus your sales manager on coaching and training sales people vs. making sales?
3. Raise prices?
4. Supply your sales people/reps with specific targeted lists of prospects?
5. Have a clever way to separate the winners from the whiners?

Please email me directly with your ideas - [email protected] - thanks.

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True Strategy; Powerful PA's; Happiest Executives; Theme Drives Leads; June 19 Verne Harnish Webinar

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HEADLINES:  

Your true strategy is not what's written on your One-Page Strategic Plan; but what's written on your weekly calendar.
	Verne Harnish

Theme Drives Leads -- driving more leads than their sales people could handle in a quarter, Ron Lovett, owner of Source Security, established a quarterly theme called "Operation Vacation: Spy vs. Spy." They asked their 450 security guards across Canada to submit company names and addresses where "enemy" security companies were working. They had over 500 submissions (the frontline sees and hears a lot!) which helped them reach their goal of 1,344 additional recurring weekly billable hours generating $1.1 million in recurring annual sales.

Theme Launch Video -- ...the winning Security Source guard and his wife, chosen from a drawing of all the leads submitted, took their vacation to Mexico in March. Here's a link to their 2 minute launch video (that's Ron in disguise) providing specifics on how they rolled this out. Thanks to their Gazelles coach Andy Buyting, Carle Ventures, for sharing this company theme. It's halftime in 2013 - time to launch a theme to drive focused results - what's the rock in your shoe that you need everyone to pitch in and help fix.

Strategy is What Makes Your Calendar -- this article in the McKinsey Quarterly looks at the allocation of time top executives spend on various activities in the business. And my favorite paragraph:

The most effective support we've seen is provided by a global chemical company, where the CEO's administrative assistant takes it upon herself to ensure that the organization's strategic objectives are reflected in the way she allocates the time of the CEO and the top team to specific issues and stakeholders. She regularly checks to ensure that calendared time matches the stated priorities. If it doesn't, during priority-setting meetings (every two weeks) she'll highlight gaps by asking questions such as, "We haven't been to Latin America yet this year - is that an issue? Do you need to schedule a visit before the end of the year?" Or, "Are these the right things to focus on? Since you're already going to Eastern Europe, what else should we schedule while you're out there? Do we need to clear the decks to make more time for strategic priorities?"

Satisfied vs. Dissatisfied Executives -- of the nearly 1500 executives McKinsey surveyed, only 9% were very satisfied with their allocation of time. The dissatisfied executives fell into four categories:

1. Online junky
2. Smoozer
3. Cheerleader
4. Firefighter

Take 2 minutes to scan through the article (it's fairly long) and click on the dissatisfied graphic and then take a look at the bar chart (2/3rds down in the article) of the most highly satisfied executives when it came to how they allocate their time. Print this bar graph out and hang by your desk. Notable - the most satisfied execs spent almost 25% of their time alone; and when it came to preferred communication channel, spent 38% face-to-face and 72% in total synchronous communication vs. just 28% asynchronous communication (email and voice mail).

Power of the PA -- one of the 5 most important time management approaches was having a powerful personal assistant (PA). My second favorite paragraph in the article continues delineating what an effective PA does:

...the CEO's administrative assistant "owns" the master calendar for corporate officers and uses it to ensure that the executive team meets on important topics, avoids redundant meetings, and capitalizes on occasions when key leaders are in the same place. Finally, to give senior leaders time to reflect on the big picture, she creates "quiet zones" of minimal activity two or three days ahead of significant events, such as quarterly earnings reports, strategy reviews with business units, and board meetings. Such approaches, which make the executives' allocation of time dramatically more effective, underscore the importance of not being "penny-wise and pound-foolish" in providing administrative support.

June 19 Verne Harnish Webcast -- 12:30pm ET -- As a leader, one of the toughest decisions you need to make is to find the #1 thing that will increase the focus and alignment of your team. Learn what Facebook and other Fast-Growing companies accomplished in 8 years instead of the 80 it took others. Join me for a webcast to learn and discuss:

• Lessons from Facebook that you can apply to your business
• How to prepare for a strong second half of 2013
• And why SWT is more important than SWOT Online junky

Register for the webcast at:
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
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Weird Entrepreneur; Weird Video; Weird Marketing; June 19 Verne Harnish Webinar

"...keeping you great"

HEADLINES:  

June 19 Verne Harnish Webinar -- 12:30pm ET, I'll be introducing our new extensive online Rockefeller Habits course, more details below, but first...

Elon Musk's Weird Marketing Lessons -- described as strong-willed, obnoxious, arrogant, and sarcastic, nevertheless his electric car company's stock (Tesla) has tripled and he's garnering NASA space contracts through SpaceX. This excellent HubSpot blog post outlines six non-standard marketing ploys used by Elon Musk, whom many consider the new Steve Jobs! Take four serious minutes to read through this blog post for details. Here's the short list:

1. Pick Fights with Journalists
2. Taunt Wall Street
3. Drop Hints and Build Suspense
4. Gloat About Victories
5. Think Big and Speak Your Mind
6. Turn Customers into Evangelists

Thanks for Erik Darmstetter, SalesBy5, for pointing me to this insightful blog post.

Dollar Shave Club's Latest Weird Video -- founder Michael Dubin's first video went wildly viral; he has a second one introducing his new One Wipe Charlies product. This Fortune article provides some interesting data around a men's product category that is 50% larger than the shaving industry - who knew (and are there parallels in your industry)!! Anyway, Dubin is remaining true to his weird self - though the latest video really needs some background music.

Pays to be Weird -- Seth Godin's blog today continues to push the importance of being weird, based on his latest book We Are All Weird. And in the blog he shares some fun statistics about baby names that are getting weirder. Anyway, it's worth asking "how might we be weird" at your next marketing meeting - which I take to really mean "how do we let the true personality of our firm shine through our messaging and product/service offerings?" FYI, Seth's blog is one I read every day.

Countries Need More Weirdos -- face it, entrepreneurs can be weird, which is what makes them lightning rods. In this recent UK Business Review interview I make the case that governments, in the process of going elephant hunting (pursuing the bad behavior of large companies) end up hurting "gazelles" - and the elephants normally escape via the power of their lobbying efforts. It's time to garner more respect for the REAL job generators in our economy -- YOU! I'm on a rampage and it might get weird, but we want to raise the visibility of gazelles in the global economy - and get you more respect. Our new message? "A country with gazelles, excels."

Focus - Go With Your Weirdness -- OK, I'm stretching it a bit with this one. This week we've released Dr. Heidi Grant Halverson's new 59 minute online seminar based on her newly released book Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence. She is currently Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business School. Her research has found that most people at work fall into one of two groups - those with a "promotion focus" and those with a "prevention focus." Both have their strengths and she shares some ways to maximize each in growing a business.

Amsterdam June 12, Wilmington June 13, and Des Moines June 13 -- these are the last three Rockefeller Habits workshops this season - we'll return in September with our 16th season of workshops.

Verne Harnish Webinar -- June 19, 12:30 - 1:30pm ET, I'm rolling out the first major update to the online Rockefeller Habits course - recorded during the 2.5 day "Making the Rockefeller Habits Rock" YPO International course I've been leading the past 36 months. You should dial in if:

• You want to learn how to implement MRH model in your company.
• You are a fan of MRH and took the course over 4 years ago.
• You recently hired new team members and want them to learn MRH model.
• You want to learn the power of hybrid education

It's a chance for someone in the firm to become certified via our new Rockefeller Habits Master Class - learn how. To secure your spot in this webinar register at this link.

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Heading to Vegas; Tony Hsieh's New Town; List of Books; Growth Summit Oct 22 - 23 Speakers

"...out-learning the competition" HEADLINES: The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.   Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's Partner Holy crap, (the Summit) was awesome! My CEO and CMO just got back from your Orlando (Leadership) Summit and absolutely loved it. They got a ton of great ideas and are really excited to be implementing them into our company.   Jordan Guernsey, Founder, Molding Box (www.moldingbox.com) Heading to Vegas -- coming off our highest rated Summit ever (and most standing ovations, rare for our discerning crowd of CEOs and senior executives), we're next heading to Las Vegas, Oct 22 - 23, for the Growth Summit hosted by Fortune magazine. Every year the inexpensive rooms go quickly, so at least make your $169/night reservations now at the beautiful JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa. FYI, registrations are already running way ahead of last year, which is why I'm giving you this early warning. 30 Books -- Confirmed speakers for the Summit (if you haven't read their books, this two-day Summit will save you weeks of time - like reading 30 books) include:  Tony Hsieh -- iconic CEO of Zappos, author of Delivering Happiness, to discuss his latest innovation, the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas into the new home for Zappos - the company-town is back!! Tours for the Gazalles200 member firms. More info. Ram Charan -- uber-guru and author of 15 books including the famous Execution with Larry Bossidy, he's one of the most awarded CEO and company consultants in the world - and someone you have to meet and hear once in your life - he's an icon of the biz-idea world. More info. Stephen M.R. Covey -- author of the highly acclaimed book The Speed of Trust, Covey served as CEO of his dad's business, propelling it to over $110 million and orchestrating the sale to Franklin Quest to form Franklin Covey. He's now one of the most sought after speakers and advisors to companies worldwide. More info. Mark Johnson -- founding partner of Innosight with Clayton Christiansen, the Harvard professor and author of the Innovators Dilemma, Johnson's work on business models led to an award-winning HBR article entitled "Reinventing Your Business Model" and his subsequent best-selling book Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal. More info. Dr. Mark Goulston -- a renowned hostage negotiator, he's the author of six books including the #1 international best-sellers Just Listen: The Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone (the best book I've ever read on asking the right questions) and REAL INFLUENCE: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In. He is also the co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership. More info. James McQuivey -- author of Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation, McQuivey is vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and the leading analyst tracking the development of digital disruption. With all the blah, blah, blah about this topic, finally a book that is practical and useful - helping companies prepare to serve newly empowered consumers. More info. Luke Hohmann -- author of Innovation Games and founder of a company by the same name, Hohmann is on the leading edge of creating enterprise serious online collaboration and gaming tools that help companies like Cisco revamp WebEx and Daimler Financial set priorities. Together we're launching a new Gazelles Growth Games portal to bring gamification to our tool kit! More info. Kaihan Krippendorf -- a perennial favorite at the Summits, this former McKinsey consultant has authored a new book entitled OutThink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore. Favorite blogger at Fast Company Magazine, Kaihan is a true strategist with tools that can help power our businesses. More info. Plus Me -- we'll be releasing the first new update to the Rockefeller Habits in over a decade with updated one-page tools and 3 brand new one-page tools. I'll walk you through them at this Growth Summit. More Practical Ideas/Hour -- this is our brand promise over any other executive education event you might attend. And we don't waste your time with speaker panels and breakout sessions. Just the best in their chosen field -- no time for amateur hour when it comes to powering your business with the best ideas, techniques, and tools. And since we rarely repeat speakers, you don't want to miss this entire body of knowledge easily digestible in two fun - and idea-packed days in Vegas - your "mini-Think Week." Look forward to meeting you in Vegas.