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Reynolds Consulting, LLC is taking our own advice and fine tuning our market positioning. We are pleased to announce (drum roll please) our new brand name…. Breakthrough Growth Masters Unlimited, a division of Reynolds Consulting, LLC Know How to Grow Now! With our national presence we wanted to better communicate the benefits derived from working [...]
Recently I have come across two very intersting lists—the top 10 growth industries and the 10 fastest declining industries. Being in a growth industry is usually a good thing! You get tail winds. Being in a declining industry–well your challenge is to avoid being the buggy whip. Most of us are somewhere in the middle [...]
What products and services have revolutionalized your life? In my lifetime, there have been many. Wonder how they came about? It required asking the right questions and really listening for the answer. In today’s pressured economic environment it is really tempting to ask, “How can we cut back?”, “How can we do this for less money/time?”. [...]
Basketball is known for the double-double, even the triple-double—scoring double digit points while achieving double digit assists or rebounds. Not an easy feat and it takes a well rounded player. Well, from here on out, I want to encourage YOU to achieve a double-double in business. Double revenue in half the time. Impossible you say? [...]
When we talk about companies we admire, most of them have good strategies. Their strategies have worked for years, as they are focused, clear, and consistent. What changes is how they deliver on them. Southwest Airlines: The Low Fare–yes, today their ticket prices may be higher in some markets but don’t forget to throw in [...]
Over the course of my blogging career, I have enjoyed coining some unique language to describe some of the concepts and practices of successful strategic leaders as well as terms that describe common mistakes. Here is a dictionary of sorts. If the words or phrases intrigue you, please click on them to read more. Each is connected to [...]
Is the glass half full or half empty? Is the best singer on the Voice the winner? Is $3.01 a fair price for a bottle of water at the airport? Your answers reflect how you see it. Are you right? Hard to say. If I am the singer who won or the water vendor at the [...]
Most of us work for established businesses. Over 50% of active businesses today have been around over 10 years. Good leaders are constantly asking how do we have to improve what we do to yield better and better performance. That is called operational enhancement and it requires innovation–large and small. There are some businesses however, that [...]
The Royal Wedding is almost here. Some of you may be more thrilled than others. However, you can’t deny that whether you are a romantic, a business centric thinker, or both, it has far reaching repurcussions. In a recent blog by Rosabeth Moss Kanter she explores some of these issues. Not unlike the last presidential [...]
Jim Collins and co-author Porras wrote the bestseller Built to Last in 1994. (The phrase was also the title of the 13th and final album of the Grateful Dead, recorded in 1989). That book, over 15 years ago encapsulated the “successful habits of visionary companies’, assumably the ones that would win forever, or at least [...]
