Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

Turn around Step 2 strategy

Step 1 sets a goal. That gives you the what you will do. This, in turn, points to the needed strategy: how that goal will be reached. When turnaround is..

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Step 1
You can turn your business around, positioning it to earn the right to grow, in four steps over 100 days. Step 1 is Set a goal...

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Turn Around
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States and took office in March 1933, he led an extraordinary three months-plus program of new legislation to turn Depression-plagued..

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Your First 100 Days and What to do with them.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, during the darkest and most desperate depths of the Great Depression, he revived a phrase that had been born on..

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First flight

Wright’s Beginning At about 10:35 on the morning of December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first sustained powered flight in aircraft heavier than air. The decision that took him..

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Competence
Competence is one of those words we all think we know but which has more than a few meanings. It may mean the ability to do something. Or the ability..

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Red Adair
Competence is knowing what to do, what to do it with, in what order to do each part of it, and then to do it efficiently, completely, and safely. What..

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shovels
Most businesspeople respect and even revere Peter Drucker. Far fewer remember Frederick Winslow Taylor and, if they do, may not so much revere him as blame him for trying to..

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simplify

The single most powerful tool in the 80/20 toolkit is simplification. The legendary management guru Peter Drucker may well be the most revered authority on simplification in business, but I..

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brute-force-attack 80/20
Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) was not a great man. His actions in combat were sometimes that of a terrorist, as when he massacred hundreds of Union troops at..

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We swim in an alphabet soup of acronyms. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty tired of it. Most of them don’t mean much, and while they may save..

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Hard Choices

Zero-up has one goal and one goal only. It is to help you to establish or reestablish the business with the level of resources necessary to optimally serve the critical..

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