Diagnosing an Avalanche In business, how can you tell when you’ve hit the Avalanche transition point? You’ll have huge revenue, while margins are lower than expected and falling. This is the number-one indicator a company has hit the deceleration transition. In the back office, you’ve got too many people...
The Jim Crane Story Smart leadership is crucial to any business going through the series of peaks and valleys I call the Business Storm Cycle; the Tornado of rapid growth and expansion, followed by the Avalanche period of fast deceleration, which is followed by the consolidation phase. Without a steady...
Inside the Process: How We Work I’m often asked how we do what we do – how we help a company battered by its trip through the Business Storm Cycle put its people, processes, and technology back together. First, we sit down with all the departments – R&D, operations, production, and...
When Faster Isn’t Better Have you ever created a personal fitness program that backfired? Maybe you decided to lose those love handles and whip yourself into shape. So, you went on a juice diet that left you feeling dazed and starved, and you bought yourself some “magic bullet” piece of...
