How effective is your management team? Are they doing the right things at the right time? Successful companies focus on their most important business drivers and conduct pragmatic assessments on how well they perform them. Guided Discovery Top performance comes Read more…
Challenge A regional commercial finishing subcontractor had nearly a full year of contracts in hand for 2020 and expected 15% growth in revenue above 2019. However, in March 2020, project postponements due to COVID-19 affected 45% of booked business, and Read more…
With the launching of the $1.9 trillion relief plan, economists are predicting a 7% GDP growth in the US for 2021. This is the largest GDP growth since the surge in 1983 and many industries are not prepared to meet Read more…
Our very own Dave Johnson was featured last week on The Referral Bench podcast. Check it out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-16-dave-johnson-we-saw-40-growth-in-2020-because/id1547811027?i=1000513536726
“Uncertainty in the economy, society, politics, has become so great as to render futile, if not counterproductive, the kind of planning most companies still practice forecasting based on probabilities.” -Peter Drucker, 1995. It has been one year since we wrote Read more…
Herd Immunity or Business Activity Greatly Increasing? The first answer to the title is based on what you consider the end. If you are looking for full herd immunity in the US, estimates cluster around fall 2021. If you are Read more…
Bold planning for your post COVID-19 future For many of us, 2021 is an opportunity year. Research from McKinsey & Company illustrates how incremental planning for 2021 will cause your firm to underachieve in 2021. Here are three steps for Read more…
Time is of the Essence! With the number of COVID cases rising nationally, we are starting to see another wave of COVID mandatory shutdowns. It is critically important to plan for the shutdown on your business to preserve enterprise and Read more…
After six months of working from home, are you working at all hours of the day and night? Do you fear that you are burning out? Many dedicated executives and staff are feeling the stress of not disconnecting from their Read more…
What do all these major companies have in common: Allstate, American Airlines, Carnival Cruise Line, Dell, Disney, Ford, Hilton, Goldman Sachs, Kohl’s, MGM, Marriott, Ralph Lauren, Raytheon, Shell, Uber? They will all be employing far fewer people next year due Read more…