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•Sustainable Growth Realizations
•Bruce Harris Story
•Watch Maker or Beekeeper
•Growth Mapping.pdf
•Growth Community.pdf
•Growth Language 1 - Gates of Growth.pdf
•Growth Language 2 - Stages of Growth.pdf
•Growth Language 3 - Growth Patterns.pdf
•Profit Model 1.pdf
•Profit Model 2.pdf
•Growth Curve 1 - Rythm Adapatability Proportion.pdf
•Growth Curve 2 - Horace's Laws of Growth.pdf
•Staff Satisfaction.pdf
•Growth Trauma.pdf
•Acceptance.pdf
•Growth Mechanisms.pdf

Book Articles

The following articles are selected excerpts from the book Navigating the Growth Curve by James Fischer. The book’s protagonist is a young entrepreneur by the name of Peter Logan. Peter is struggling to save his deceased brother’s company from failure. He has been sent, by his mentor – Horace Bedford to visit local business owners to learn different principles of the Growth Curve management model. Each chapter chronicles Peter’s encounter with a specific topic of the Growth Curve Methodology.

Growth Mapping

Provides a dynamic new method of planning that is accessible by the whole organization and allows contribution and strategic authoring by the entire staff.

Growth Community

Redesigns how we think about and create the modern work community so that it not only better serves the company’s vision, strategy, and goals, but also correctly addresses the interests, needs, and requirements of the staff.

Language of Growth (3 articles)

Creates a language of growth that: a) explains how companies grow, and b) gives a vocabulary of growth that everyone in the organization can use to communicate about the company’s growth.

Growth Language 1 - 3 Gates of Growth

Growth Language 2 - Stages of Growth

Growth Language 3 - Growth Patterns

Profit Model (2 articles)

Provides a powerful new perspective on the importance of profitability in regard to the growth process and how it is: a) tied to the design of the business, b) dependent on everyone in the enterprise being in the profit zone, and c) reliant on the continued loyalty of the customer base.

Profit Model 1

Profit Model 2

Growth Curve 1 (2 articles)

Turns the understanding of organizational growth from one of being “business as a machine” to one of being “business as a living, intelligent organism.”

Growth Curve 1- Rhythm Adaptability Proportion

Growth Curve 2- Horace’s Laws of Growth

Staff Satisfaction (1 article)

Reveals the core requirements to staff satisfaction, and show the deep

connection between staff satisfaction and enterprise profitability at every stage of growth.

Staff Satisfaction

Growth Trauma (1 article)

Reveals the causes, symptoms, and cures for Growth Trauma.

Growth Trauma

Growth Mechanisms ( 1 article)

Introduces key mechanisms that facilitate the application of the Growth Curve Solution in a business enterprise at any given stage of growth.

Growth Mechanisms

Acceptance (1 article)

Introduces a method that facilitates the willingness of the CEO to release resistance to the company’s current challenges in order to see below the surface of those challenges to the real causes of the company’s issues.

Acceptance

Sustainable Growth Realizations

The first realization is this:

If you are looking for a formula for sustainable growth, stop looking. There is no secret formula, no 10 point system to guarantee sustainable growth... Read More!

Bruce Harris Story

"19 Years ago, I lay on the floor in my own home, my arms bound, my mouth taped and a 45 caliber handgun pointed at my head... Read More!

What are you a Watchmaker or a Beekeeper?

Two old friends, both business owners, sit down at a local coffee shop to talk with each other about their businesses. One is a Beekeeper who oversees honey hives placed at the perimeter of a cherry orchard outside of town. The other is a watchmaker who makes and repairs fine watches and has a shop just north of the town square.

Both owners are ready to retire and have put their businesses up for sale. If you had to buy one of the businesses, given that all things regarding customer base, revenue and profit are equal, which one would you chose? Read More!