Want to grow fast? You have to pulse fast.

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Oct 192011
 

If you want to grow your business faster, you’ll need more meetings.  That’s right more meetings, not less. Here’s why..

Businesses generally have annual planning days, monthly management meetings and a semi-regular weekly meeting.  This approach can work for businesses growing at 10-15% per year.  If you want to grow at 30%, 40% or even 50% per year, you’ll need to compress time and have many more meetings.

In a fast growth business there is so much happening that a year can feel more like a decade and a quarter more like a year.  With this in mind, you’ll need to talk strategy at least every quarter, measure performance every week and pulse with a short huddle every day.

The best way to start a faster meeting rhythm is with a daily huddle.  This is where we started at The Physio Co, we call our huddle To The Point and it’s become the most important meeting we have.

Pulsing faster by committing to a regular meeting rhythm and almost religious discipline are some of the keys to fast growth.

PS – Want to know more? Check out this post: a 12-minute meeting that works.

PPS – If you’d like to see our daily huddle in action, come and join us!

Learning. Nothing is more important.

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Aug 312011
 

Growing businesses need growing people.  The reason: if a business is to grow, the people within it ALL need to be continually learning, improving and growing.

I am obsessed by learning.  Every single day I look for ways to learn.  I listen, I read, I watch, I write and I reflect.  I learn from others and I learn from myself.  Often the best learning comes from my own mistakes.

As the CEO of The Physio Co, my priorities include our vision, our values and the alignment of our team to both.  To stay relevant to our team, our customers and our industry, I need to be learning even faster than our business grows.  The same goes for everyone in our team, if we are not learning, we are being left behind.

In the next few weeks I have a ton of learning events that I’m attending.  I’m excited at what I will learn and then share.

Learning. Nothing is more important.


Commitment. To dabble or dive in?

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Feb 172011
 

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard in life is: “Don’t dabble”. Simple as that.  If you’re going to do something, commit and give it everything.

From building a fast growing company that will dominant your industry, to training for a marathon or baking a cake, dabbling won’t get you there.

No matter what you plan to do, big or small, I reckon the only way to really nail it is to be all in.