Scaling Up with Stacy Eads

Recently, I had the pleasure of being invited to Harvard, along with 75 CEOs from around the globe, to attend a co-hosted event between Dr. David Ricketts and acclaimed business author Verne Harnish. It was the pinnacle experience to walk onto the esteemed campus, capping our year-long 20,000 Scaleups initiative.

STOP. Think about the last time YOU WON. What was it? Did you score the winning run in your adult kickball league last weekend? Still reminiscing about that hole-in-one at the corporate golf tournament last fall?

I became a Certified International Business Coach because I loved the idea of sharing the tools I find with other CEOs, as I do in this monthly Edmond Business column. Right now, I fly all over North America, helping firms of all sizes scale up their companies toward a strategic exit strategy. 

I became a Certified International Business Coach because I loved the idea of sharing the tools I find with other CEOs as I do in this monthly Edmond Business column. Right now, I fly all over North America helping firms of all sizes scale up their companies toward a strategic exit strategy. 

As a business coach helping companies strategize their leadership roadmap every 90 days, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about how new AI tools, like ChatGPT, can help or hurt their organizations in the short-term and long-term future. Here’s a list of AI-based or smart-technology resources you and your team may find helpful.

If you didn’t make time for significant business reading in 2022, it’s a great goal to set in 2023. Spring is a lovely time in Oklahoma to grab a good book and sit on your back porch swing, absorbing the rays and the knowledge.

You probably already know Key Performance Indicators (often shortened to “KPIs”) are metrics used to measure the success of an organization or the performance of an individual. The real question is: How do you know if you are measuring the right things?

As a manager of any business you can name, in any industry, there’s bound to be drama lurking somewhere around the water cooler chatter from time to time. When that drama crosses the threshold of your door, do you know how to respond?

Intel wins wars, and some headlines suggest our businesses may, in fact, be going to war with the economy sooner than later. Verne Harnish, author of business books Rockefeller Habits, Scaling Up 2.0, and Scaling Up Compensation, focused on gaining client intel during his recent Scaling Up Summit I attended. The successful businessman’s preferred method of client intel is listed among the 10 Rockefeller Habits successful organizations deploy when growing their companies at a rapid pace. He suggests the CEO ask four key questions to their clients directly, not utilizing impersonal digital surveys.

News alert: Your culture is not a marketing task because it requires good communication, wordsmithing, and graphic design. It’s a leadership task. Each and every one of you plays a part in building your culture, reinforcing good behaviors, and celebrating wins that exude who your organization wants to be day in and day out.