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And the question is, well, now what? So when you’re growing over 400 of the Fortune 500 companies from 1955, they no longer exist even though their industries and many of their competitors are still thriving. So the question is, what on earth happened to those companies? Well, obviously they were growing to make the Fortune 500 list. And were they derailed? That could have been avoided had they applied the two fundamental layers.
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And for this one, it’s again, I don’t care if you’re a one person shop. I don’t care if you’re 20,000 employees strong. It doesn’t matter.
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There is only two moves that can be made when a company is growing to ensure growth. I’m going to cover the first one here. So the first step when growing to apply or layer in to ensure growth has a couple layers in and of itself.
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So layer one, can your company make a commitment in writing to stay young, stay fresh, and most importantly, stay current? So let me repeat these. Does your company have the ability and the guts to make a commitment to itself, put it in writing, add it to your mission statement, your vision statement, add it everywhere, post it to the walls that you are going to stay young and fresh and you are going to stay current. So I say young and fresh because you always, the world is changing at the rate of dog years today.
(1:45 – 2:04)
You know, one year, no question, the business landscape, the technology, the techniques, the concepts, they’re changing as if it was seven years ago. If you relate this to the 70s, 80s and 90s, there’s no question about it. So you’ve got to stay new.
(2:04 – 2:53)
You’ve got to stay young, meaning you’ve got to bring in new blood that are getting teaching and coaching from somebody else. And this new blood is the most meaningful to your company in the areas where the people do the meaningful work,
(0:00 – 0:38)
And the question is, well, now what? So when you’re growing over 400 of the Fortune 500 companies from 1955, they no longer exist even though their industries and many of their competitors are still thriving. So the question is, what on earth happened to those companies? Well, obviously they were growing to make the Fortune 500 list. And were they derailed? That could have been avoided had they applied the two fundamental layers.
(0:39 – 0:48)
And for this one, it’s again, I don’t care if you’re a one person shop. I don’t care if you’re 20,000 employees strong. It doesn’t matter.
(0:49 – 1:06)
There is only two moves that can be made when a company is growing to ensure growth. I’m going to cover the first one here. So the first step when growing to apply or layer in to ensure growth has a couple layers in and of itself.
(1:06 – 1:45)
So layer one, can your company make a commitment in writing to stay young, stay fresh, and most importantly, stay current? So let me repeat these. Does your company have the ability and the guts to make a commitment to itself, put it in writing, add it to your mission statement, your vision statement, add it everywhere, post it to the walls that you are going to stay young and fresh and you are going to stay current. So I say young and fresh because you always, the world is changing at the rate of dog years today.
(1:45 – 2:04)
You know, one year, no question, the business landscape, the technology, the techniques, the concepts, they’re changing as if it was seven years ago. If you relate this to the 70s, 80s and 90s, there’s no question about it. So you’ve got to stay new.
(2:04 – 2:53)
You’ve got to stay young, meaning you’ve got to bring in new blood that are getting teaching and coaching from somebody else. And this new blood is the most meaningful to your company in the areas where the people do the meaningful work,
