A workshop session on defining growth, success and the journeys we take as entrepreneurs and business builders. A guided version of this deck is at: https://howardgray.net/2019/01/22/workshop-slide-deck-guided-lifecycles-in-products-companies-and-careers/

1. Lifecycles
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Playing games, defining success and
growing old together.

5. Careers
Companies
Products/Services

6. Company Lifecycles
Career Lifecycles

9. Exercise 1: Lifecycles
Where are your current
offerings in the lifecycle?
(consider trends)
3 mins, solo

10. What about your team?
Your company?
You?

11. We are goal and growth orientated
animals
Change can be a challenge

12. Foundations

15. Which game?

16. Which game?

19. Which way to go?

20. Sell to an
industry
player
Grow
and IPO
Lifestyle
Business
Grow &
Hold

21. Exercise 2: Views
Who are you, who do you want to be?
How long is your view?
Which way do you want to go?
5 mins, solo

22. Increase
market share
Strengthen
financial
resources
Develop
physical
resources
Typical Growth Goals
Increase
productivity
Innovate to stay
ahead

23. Exercise 3: Growth
What’s an important growth goal for you?
When?
3 mins, solo

24. Success

25. How do we measure success?

26. Intrinsic
Extrinsic

27. Move into a 10,000 sq ft
office

28. 10k Instagram followers

29. Get featured in Forbes magazine

30. Our client tells us how proud
they are of the work we did
together

31. Being able to sleep for 9
hours on a Saturday

32. Give the biggest shit I possibly can
while simultaneously not actually
giving the slightest shit

33. Exercise 4: Measure It
How do you measure success?
How do you grade yourself? Your company?
What else could you measure?
8 mins, in pairs

34. Considering everything we’ve
looked at so far...

35. “When we speak 3 years from now -
what would have happened?”
What’s happened to you, what’s happened outside?
(consider 2nd & 3rd order effects of trends)
In pairs, 5 mins each

36. Reflection

37. Reflection
Which parts of this feel hazy?
Do you know what you don’t know?
Which version of you are you thinking about?
3 mins, solo

38. Summary
Who you want to be
Where you are now, and where you want to go
Which way to get there
The length of the the game and the road
What success feels like

39. </lifecycles>
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