Are you ready to jump over a black hole?

As my home page notes, my work is focussed on leaders ready to make a Massive Impact. Of late, I’m finding myself being introduced to leaders of businesses that are “stuck” at revenue levels in the 8–12 million range. The business leaders will note they are “stuck”, often that they are tired, exhausted or, if British, “knackered”.

When I ask them if they have been beyond that revenue level in the past the answer is either “yes, but we fell back”, or “no, we never seem to be able to get beyond a certain point”. The great news is that I understand where they are on their business journey, both in terms of numbers and in terms of how it feels to lead a business. In talking to such leaders, I can both normalise their experience on three levels. First, from my own past experience as a leader, then from working with many clients in leading their business through and beyond this, then third, from demonstrating the journey through the use of two deeply researched and applied models that I worked with in my years in Shirlaws.

The first model is called “Jump” and illustrates why businesses get stuck in a “black hole” at predictable levels and so, knowing these are predictable, leaders can then have the choice to “Jump” the black hole, if they are ready to do so, to make that “Massive Impact” for themselves and their business.