by Pamela Dennis | Mar 2, 2018 | Agility, Blog, Business Interest Protection, Car Love Affairs, Change Adaptability, Core Capabilities, cost of growth, Engagement, Entrepreneurs, Futures, Growth, Growth Challenges, Leadership, Meeting Goals, Profitability, Speed of Execution, Strategy, Transitions, Trust
Big audacious goals? Huge opportunities? Poised for take-off? You’ve got the market winds behind you and a product or service offering like nobody else’s. What’s to worry about? My thirty years’ consulting experience tells me that successful executives do worry, and...
by Pamela Dennis | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, Boomer Perspectives, Encore, Futures, Leadership, Planning, Protecting a Business, Retirement, Selling a Business, Strategy, Transferring ownership, Transitions, Visioning
It’s a new year, may it be a rewarding one! What does that mean to you? If you’re a long-time business owner it may mean continued growth and profitability or maybe just a year better than the last. If you’re like 75% of business owners you’re counting on the year...
by Pamela Dennis | Oct 27, 2017 | Blog, cost of growth, Entrepreneurs, Futures, Growth, Growth Challenges, Planning, Selling a Business, small business growth rates, Transitions
Nothing excites owners like the prospect of growth. Nothing causes more nightmares than managing it. How to fund it, prepare for it, keep up with it, survive it! Do I really need to grow to be viable? What’s healthy growth and what’s destructive? So many worries about...
by Pamela Dennis | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Business Interest Protection, Costs, Futures, Guarding Assets in a Sale, Planning, Protecting a Business, Selling a Business, Transferring ownership, Transitions
Auto seatbelts have been around for over a seventy-five years. Remember those two-point lap belts in the fifties? Seatbelt installation wasn’t required in US cars until 1966. By 1981, only 11 percent of US drivers used them. It wasn’t until 1989 that most states...
by Pamela Dennis | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog, Car Love Affairs, Entrepreneurs, Growth, Growth Challenges, Leadership, Planning, Start-Ups, Transitions
In my last blog post I began with a picture of a classic ’57 Chevy Bel Air. It was a metaphor for the need to let go of some of the things you loved about your company’s Good Old Days of go-go growth. My point was that each stage of company growth has its strengths;...
by Pamela Dennis | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Car Love Affairs, Entrepreneurs, Growth, Growth Challenges, Leadership, Planning, Selling a Business, Start-Ups, Transitions
Growth and the Good Old Days This is the first of a two-part blog post on Surviving Growth, based on a workshop I’ll be presenting this month for the Denver Business Journal. Part 1 looks at the characteristics and challenges of four stages of growth. Part 2 will look...
