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As the co-founder of the non-profit Kingdom Missions Fund, Darrell Amy noticed that the largest donations came from business owners, and he wondered how he could help generous business owners quickly grow revenue so they could give even more.
Darrell’s experience as a leader in sales and marketing has given him a unique perspective on what it takes to grow revenue. Distilling 27 years of experience, Darrell authored Revenue Growth Engine: How To Align Sales & Marketing To Accelerate Growth.
He is a member of the Forbes Business Council and he helps companies maximize growth through sales and marketing alignment. Darrell hosts the Revenue Growth Podcast and co-hosts the Selling From the Heart Podcast. He also volunteers as the executive director of the ManAlive EXPEDITION, an organization that helps men find healing and identity.
When he isn’t helping generous business owners grow their revenue in order to give more, he enjoys the outdoors including sailing, canoeing, and hiking. Darrell, along with his wife Leslie, enjoy spending time with their children and four grandchildren.
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Visionaries are heralded as the Chief Innovation Officers of their companies. While the integration team works to turn the ideas into reality, the visionary leader works to come up with new ideas.
This works… to a point. Then, there comes a point in a company’s growth where a company needs to graduate from having an innovative leader to having a culture of innovation.
In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, my favorite Jim Collins book, he observes that every company starts with some kind of creative visionary. The challenge as that company grows is to “become an innovative company, rather than a company with an innovative founder.”
Companies that make this shift thrive. They continue to grow at a high rate. They sustain a leadership position in their markets. They reduce founder dependence, maximizing their valuation.
Companies that don’t make this shift plateau. While they may enjoy linear growth, the company is at risk of displacement from a current or new competitor. When it comes time to sell, they often sell at a discount due to founder dependence.
How do you identify the difference between a company with a visionary leader and a company with an innovative culture? Here are a few ideas.
A company dependent on ideas from a single visionary does not have a designated team of people working on innovation. A company with an innovative culture celebrates innovation. They identify people on the team with gifts of innovation and put them to work in cross-functional innovation teams. (For more ideas on this check out A Visionary’s Guide to Unleashing Strategic Innovation.)
According to Peter Drucker, “Purposeful, systematic innovation begins with the analysis of the opportunities.” Innovation is a process. Established companies go beyond relying on the visionary’s hunch, great idea from the latest book, or middle of the night brainstorm. They systematically and purposefully work to understand what the market wants and work to bring it to life. There is a consistent cadence to how the innovation team works together. They validate ideas by piloting and optimizing them.
Innovative cultures keep score. They track the impact of new innovations. They celebrate the wins. They have a wall of innovation. (See What’s On Your Company’s Innovation Wall).
Governments celebrate innovation (aka Research & Development) because they know that innovation creates Companies that intentionally innovate may be able to take advantage of tax credits and incentives from federal, state, and local governments. Companies that don’t have an innovative culture have probably never asked about these benefits.
You could add more to this list such as low employee engagement, lack of an entrepreneurial spirit, and being unprepared for an exit.
First, recognize both the need and the opportunity. In his book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker says, “We now know that the medium-sized business is particularly well positioned to be a successful entrepreneur and innovator, provided only that it organize itself for entrepreneurial management.” He goes on to explain how established mid-sized businesses are well positioned to build cultures of innovation.
Building an innovative culture requires three steps:
Identify the people on your team with gifts of innovation
Ideate with regular Innovation Focus Days
Investigate the ideas that emerge by piloting, optimizing, and packaging them for implementation.
I call this process creating a Strategic Innovation Engine. You can learn more about how this could work for your company at www.strategicinnovationengine.com.
Originally published on Darrell Amy's LinkedIn.
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