September 18, 2013 (Powerhomebiz.com) It is the biggest obsession of most CEOs, board members, executives and entrepreneurs. It is ultimately why every business person reads any self-help book; it is the goal of any executive training program and the key mission for any operation. It’s one lone word that either inspires an executive to greater levels of innovation or unknowingly triggers a downward spiral of mediocrity: Growth.
“Industry’s collective focus on growth as a necessity for business success is just one side of the coin. The other side is the one thing that is worse than not growing: growing too fast,” urges business behemoth Steve Blue, among the world’s most prolific CEOs and an executive success-driven keynote speaker and profit growth coach with vast experience transforming marginally successful small businesses into global goliaths. “Many times, corporate executives erroneously believe their companies are growing but, in reality, they are ‘swelling’—riding a wave of near-term growth until inevitable weaknesses and threats reveal shoddy, or nonexistent, contingency planning and implosion ensues. While, physiologically, a reduction in swelling indicates healing from an injury, for a business it is the precipitating sign of a deadly vicious cycle. If the injurious actions, or inactions, are not immediately triaged and rectified, repetitive swelling and receding leads to layoffs, divisiveness, low morale and, ultimately, dooms a company to death.”
With swelling rampant and all-too accepted in today’s tumultuous, short-sighted marketplace that is fixated on business growth in any form or fashion, do executives and entrepreneurs really know what it takes to grow their companies the “right” way? With daily “war stories” of business collapse throughout the U.S.—many from developing too quickly and caving in on themselves, Blue, a world-leading expert on crafting and cultivating managed, measured, and meaningful business growth, is available for interviews and byline editorials that reveal new and compelling insights helping executives and entrepreneurs improve day-to-day operations, magnify revenue and long-term profitability and, in doing so, realize sustainable success.
Representative topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Rethinking ROI: revenue, operations and innovation
•5 secrets to managed, measured, and meaningful business growth
• 7 silent business killers: warning signs failure is inevitable
• Outdo, outsmart, outlast: keys to long-lasting growth
• Fat, dumb, and happy: The unfortunate tale of the modern day CEO
• The “new normal”: how to grow your company amid aggressive competition
• How to understand key factors driving your business
• Critical questions a CEO needs to keep asking them self
• Why Unlearning + Curiosity = Lasting Innovation
• 4 CEO secrets for superstar leadership
About the Expert
With more than three decades of management, executive and consulting experience in markets all over the world, business growth authority Steve Blue’s career credits include forming astoundingly successful international ventures and transforming corporate and entrepreneurial businesses with no international presence into global powerhouses. This visionary executive success-oriented speaker and consultant, currently serving as CEO of Miller Ingenuity (www.milleringenuity.com), is a globally regarded “turnaround specialist” whose skills in strict operational control, cash management and high stakes negotiations, coupled with his firm but fair nature, have transformed companies into industry giants. So skilled a negotiator is Blue that he once brokered a seemingly impossible union agreement resulting in deep wage cuts and the right to outsource, all achieved without a strike. This resulted in Harvard Business School inviting him to lecture on the initiative—to the professors, not the students.
Blue has had an instinct for outperforming his peers in profit generation from the beginning of his career. Early on he became the “go to” guy, taking the helm of underperforming divisions and transforming them into highly profitable corporate units. This is where he honed a deep knowledge of most functional areas of a company, and Blue worked in industries as diverse as publishing and industrial automation. In each and every assignment he substantially increased productivity and reduced costs.
Now as an esteemed corporate CEO of one of the longest standing companies in its industry, Blue demonstrates a rare and enviable gift for avoiding the kind of cookie-cutter, follower thinking that kills innovation and leads to stagnation. He fuels his business model—and those of other enterprises he assists—with unquenched curiosity and a relentless scan of the horizon in pursuit of new opportunities and consistent, record-breaking businesses performance. This has established Blue as a world-class expert on crafting business models that lead to managed, measured, and meaningful growth. In his 32 years in business, the last 15 as a P&L executive, Blue has solved unimaginable problems and has never failed to deliver double digit gains.
In recent years, after achieving amazing levels of personal career achievement, Blue has become an in-demand keynote speaker across a wide variety of industries and audiences who benefit from his enlightening, empowering and proven growth and success methodologies.
Blue holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the State University of New York and a MBA from Regis University.