Catalyst Strategic Consultants - Take my company to the next level

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The Spiral Up:

Leader Capacity

Leader Goals and Intent

Alliance / Absorption

Breakout / Breakthrough

Take my company to the next level

When you’re ready to take off…

Our long and multi-faceted experience, being inside 30 companies at a time, as they developed, made strategic moves, encountered frustration and achieved unparalleled success, I have seen the track of greatness and guided leaders to follow it. The results?

Starting as President of a small capital pool company, X moves to Exec. VP of New York listed $1B cap and cashes out mightily, free at 50 to move to another life track
Young President with flat sales - engages and reaches year over year growth of 50% for 7 straight years
Oil Patch Services Firm at $14m visions $100m by end of century - and surpasses it.

I’ve got more. All spiralled up through this process.

The Spiral Up:

Leader Capacity

removing impediments;
developing required depth;
identifying and building presidential skill where there was deficit before; and
walking free from the unwanted effects of the past

make the leader a bigger person, one that people want to follow, one more able to embrace the challenges that growth imposes.

Leader Goals and Intent

grasping the possible scope of where the company can go against a backdrop of wide experience, and how it might happen;
locking onto the long haul drivers that carry the company through; and
seizing on goals worth striving for

open the landscape of possibility to the leader, build intensity and yet greater capacity.

Corporate Vision

Fed by the leader’s emerging energy, a core team drawn from the organization powers up goals for the company that max the potential of the team, reinforces it and rewards them for accomplishing the big items. Our approach to distilling vision is proven to have created unity and drive that permeates the whole organization. It's not easy to do but what that is there worth doing that is?

Planning Mechanism

Installing a discipline of planning makes clear the distinction between ideas, and strategic projects - then stages those adopted into effect. Clarity on projects being pursued to realize the goal results in crystal-like focus for the company. Without such a system, the company is fundamentally ungoverned. We want to be able to direct the entity toward its goals effectively and efficiently.

Implementation

As the ability to forward plan grows, the need to deliver on strategy becomes paramount. Not change management, this work is insuring that strategy takes hold and is not frustrated but demonstrated in action, kicked into gear and made part of the company's ongoing operation rather than a half-baked lip-serviced testament to ineffectiveness.

Delivery Modus

Every organization requires a combination of exceptional people and a strong system to deliver the product or service being offered. Our experience suggests the latter will make up for deficiencies in the former and can create superstars. In designing and structuring organizations to follow and emphasize the process of delivery, we capitalize on potential making the most of the company’s offering.

Trust and Culture

High growth companies know that culture either inhibits or enables the accomplishment of ambitious goals. The one currency you can't have enough of in building a super-responsive company is trust. Sophisticated development and maintenance of trust is the missing element in the Jazz company of today. Instilling and broadening the skillful practice of trust through the organization builds speed inside and reach outside the boundaries of the company.

Alliance / Absorption

Collaboration and alliance with un-owned partners (co-venturers, suppliers, marketers) means that corporate reach can extend 'way beyond what one company can command. These new forms of business, so reliant on clarity of vision and grounded in the mechanics of trust, can only find success in the hands of those who have climbed the spiral. When these strategic options are available, hyper growth without capital becomes a reality.

Breakout / Breakthrough –

Every enterprise has its season and every CEO must give way to others in turn. Perhaps it will be to move along to another success, perhaps to leave business culture. Cashing out, exiting, merging in -- often these are imponderables for the CEO who has never been there before. We have. We can guide the company through and beyond this passage to other vistas.

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