Do you have the cash to fuel growth?
Growth sucks cash – it’s the oxygen required by your business, so knowing your cash conversion cycles and improving them is vital for growth.
Understanding your cash conversion cycle, profitability analysis, cash flow story & productivity is key to reducing the impact that growth will have on your cash reserves. As does the inclusion of a cash strategy that enables the company to have a consistent flow of cash to fuel growth.
The 7 Attributes of Agile Growth framework provides you with the tools and resources to achieve profitability that is sustainable and proactive in creating cash. If you are unhappy with the cash position of your business, take the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth assessment and discuss how your company can perform better with a Gravitas Impact certified business consultant.
Profit Resources
As a Business Growth Strategist, Leigh Paulden offers you access to an exclusive library of practical and internationally proven resources and tools as part of the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth framework. The library includes reference material from well-known authors, business consultants and CEO’s on the subject of cash. Regularly updated to incorporate changing market forces and innovations in technology/labour work flows. His library of articles, recommended readings and resources are there to help you create a cash conversion cycle that enhances your bottom line.
Recommended Reading
Business Model Generation
Author: Mike Michalowicz
Co-created by 470 “Business Model Canvas” practitioners from 45 countries, this book uses a highly visual, 4-colour design to showcase powerful strategic ideas and tools that are easy to incorporate into your business.
Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
Author: Greg Crabtree
A guide to help small businesses, between start-up and $5 million in revenue, become financially literate.
The Customer-Funded Business
Author: John Mullins
Five novel approaches that innovative 21st century entrepreneurs have used to successfully acquire funding for their ideas from the customers who will buy/use them.
Profit First
Author: Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
Co-created by 470 “Business Model Canvas” practitioners from 45 countries, this book uses a highly visual, 4-colour design to showcase powerful strategic ideas and tools that are easy to incorporate into your business.
Make Banks Compete to Lend You Money
Author: Rich Russakoff & Mary Goodman
Learn the tricks of the trade in how to get banks to say yes to your loan application every time.
Your Business is a Leaky Bucket
Author: Howard M. Shore
Using the metaphor of a “Leaky Bucket,” the author shows how to fix 15 common ‘holes’ in the areas of people, strategy, and execution that drains energy, direction, and profitability from every business.
Built to Sell
Author: John Warrillow
The number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies heavily on their involvement and therefore becomes difficult to sell when buyers are not confident that it will continue without them.
Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink
Author: Jonathan L. S. Byrnes
In this new age of precision markets, business leaders are increasingly using the authors “profit levers” to gain an edge on competitors and rethinking strategy, customer relations, operations, and metrics as a result.
