Accelerated Growth Consulting

If you could pick one idea or concept that drives accelerated growth companies more than any other, what would you pick? Would you pick, “Great leadership?” Or, “A new or better technology?” Maybe, “Massive cash flow?” Or, “Viral marketing?” Or would you pick, “Great systems?” Or maybe even, “Great people?” Well, while all of those [...]

When your prospects and customers think about you, do they think, “I have to have that!” Or, “I need to go there!” Or “I need to use them!” Or is it more of a more of a, “Let me think about it.” Or a “I’ll get back to you.” Or, “I’m doing my due diligence,” [...]

Fortune magazine recently came out with their listing of the Fortune 500 (and 1000). A quick survey of the Fortune 500 shows that the company with the best performing stock return over the past decade has been . . . Apple–at an impressive 50.7% return per year. So, how did they do that? From my [...]

If you could achieve Wolfgang Puck’s success, would you? If you could go from being a young Austrian boy who was fired from his first cooking job to being a world renown chef and restauranteur with a global brand that includes 15 top rated restaurants (including the famous Spago Beverly Hills), 80 Gourmet Express locations, [...]

Whether you like watching American Idol or not, this season’s favorite to win, David Cook, has demonstrated a number of important principles that can help any small business win in the marketplace. 1. It’s Okay Not to Be First Out of the Blocks. Every year I skip the auditions (obviously, since I run a company [...]

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Business Week ran a story on community colleges in this week’s edition that reminded me of this principle. When you think of a community college, how large of a target market do you think of? Twenty miles? Fifty miles? A hundred miles? My guess is that you probably can’t imagine that many people would drive [...]

Have you watched Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on one of the best–and free–small business educational experiences around. You don’t even need to be a foodie to enjoy the show, just a small business owner or senior executive. Now, if you haven’t watched the show, the basic story line is [...]

Whether you buy into the Christmas story or not, you have to at least be amazed that over two thousand years later, in America alone, over $450 BILLION will be spent, that businesses will organize their sales cycles around, and that employees will organize their vacations around a day designed to remember and celebrate the [...]

If you’re in a market space where there are one, two or three dominant players and you’re not one of them, what should you do? Sadly, too many companies and organizations try to compete head on. They go on strategy retreats and come home with vision statements about being the "premier" or "dominant" or "number [...]