Growth Summit 2013: Business Advice On A Silver Plate

Are you running out of time? Can’t follow what’s being published and posted out there on strategy, entrepreneurship, business models and leadership? Growth Summit 2013 might just be your solution. On Thursday May 23rd, four thought leaders will come to Barcelona to provide lectures under the auspices of Verne Harnish ‘the Guru of fast growing companies.’ The focus is on making better People, Strategy, and Execution decisions, derived from the Gazelles International Coaches tools.

• The People part looks at how to get the right people doing the right things with clear accountabilities and metrics. Triggering questions will make you aware of this asset:  Is everyone in your company pulling their own weight and contributing as they should? If you had to start the company all over tomorrow, would you enthusiastically rehire everyone on your team?
• The Strategy part focuses on making the right decisions: Do you have a solid top-line revenue growth strategy in place? Does everybody understands and knows how to follow the strategy?
• The Execution excellence must never be lost out of sight.  Gazelles has an Execution Checklist of ten habits that will reduce by up to 80% the time it takes you to manage the business, freeing up leadership to spend more time on market-facing activities.

Growth Summit 2013 promises to be a day of interaction and learning. But from whom will you learn on this day?

John Mullins is a distinguished figure in the global entrepreneurial community and author of bestselling books like The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan  and Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Currently he works as an associate professor of management practice in entrepreneurship and marketing at the London Business School.

Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker. Her motto: “Let’s not play the game, let’s change it.” On Inc. she writes about entrepreneurship and in her latest book Willful Blindness she searches for the answer: Why we ignore the obvious at our peril?

John Warrillow is founder of four companies, angel investor and author of the book Built to Sell: Creating a business that can thrive without you. He talks about how to ensure you have a sellable business by addressing four topics: 1) The 8 steps to creating a sellable company 2) How to attract multiple strategic bidders for your business 3) How to maximize your valuation and get the highest possible price for your business and 4) The secret to getting your cash up front and avoiding a lengthy earn out

Verne Harnish is founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and Gazelles living in Barcelona. Verne has spent the past 30 years educating entrepreneurial teams. He’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time. On the Growth Guy he has a weekly blog on articles, trends and best practices for growing leaders of growing companies.

This spring Growth Summit 2013 only visits two places in Europe. Tomorrow Amsterdam and the day after tomorrow Barcelona. It is a great opportunity for Barcelona entrepreneurs and business professionals to get insight from world-leading management experts, authors, and advisors. By attending this event you can save up to dozens of hours, because 1) it spares you time on reading the books and in one day you will be updated on the new tools and strategies of 2013 that you can put into action to make your company grow 2) it gives you the opportunity to ask questions to the thought leaders in real life, and 3) you will be part of an international audience of CEOs and executives of Europe’s leading mid-market growth firms open for networking. Tickets are still available here. We hope to see you there!

Barcinno will report on the outcomes of the Growth Summit 2013.
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