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WHITEWATER
WHAT IS WHITEWATER?
DANGER ZONE!
Whitewater is one of the 4 visible danger zones in the growth Lifecycle. The longer you stay there, the closer you get every day to losing key people, losing your strategic direction, and draining vital resources.
"Being in Whitewater is not a choice - getting out of it is."
- Les McKeown, Founder and CEO, Predictable Success
"...you found a company, you run it, then it runs you."
- David Neeleman, then CEO of JetBlue
The 3 Key Challenges in Whitewater
INSTALL PROCESS WHILE STILL MOVING FORWARD
You know you need to install systems and processes in order to manage the complexity your growth has brought, but doing so seems to slow everything down. You can't find a way to both install process and continue to grow.
RESISTING THE MAGNETic PULL OF FUN
It seems only yesterday that everything you did 'just worked'. The 'Fun' period now seems like a golden age of successful growth, and you can't understand why what worked so well then isn't working now.
CHANGING YOUR LEADERSHIP MINDSET
After years of 'trusting your gut', it's clear that everything has become too complicated to just shoot from the hip. You know you need to adjust your leadership mindset, but you're not sure exactly how or why.
Build The Team You Need to Get Out of Whitewater
A key element - in our view, the key element of achieving successful growth is in building the right team. Here at Predictable Success we've uncovered the precise combination of 4 specific leadership styles needed to move through each one of the 7 growth stages in the growth Lifecycle. Here's what you need in place in order to optimize the time you spend in Fun:
Visionary
To be successful, every venture needs a Visionary - someone who thinks at the 30,000' level and sets the overall strategy and direction. Visionaries are 'starters' and come up with new ideas.
Operator
Visionaries become easily frustrated with detail and attending to the 'nitty-gritty' of execution, so they need to have one or more Operators - ruthless finishers who get things done.
PROCESSOR
Processors install systems, policies and procedures and are needed in this stage of growth (stage 3, 'Whitewater'). Having Processors too early will slow down your growth.
SYNERGIST
Eventually you will need some Synergists if you want to get to the peak stage of growth ('Predictable Success'), but like Processors, they will hold you back if you put them on the team too early.
ARE YOU TRULY SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING OUT OF Whitewater?
(HINT: You should be. The longer you stay in Whitewater, the more your team will fragment, and the more you will lose your strategic sense of direction.)
By far the fastest way to accelerate out of Whitewater is to enroll in The Predictable Success Acceleration Program - a proven, time-test, highly cost-effective Program that will not only accelerate your move out of Whitewater, it will be your constant guide an companion as you progress all the way through to Predictable Success:
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