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Choose the 80 Before You Design the Enterprise
Front-to-Back 80/20 is not cost reduction. It is the first strategic design decision — naming the vital few markets, customers, products and channels…
Strategic Intent & FocusGlobal Growth Dynamics: Revenue Growth vs. the Vital Few
The original Global Growth Dynamics build, recreated: how chasing revenue turns into margin loss, and how quads and quartiles on market, customer and…
Strategic Intent & FocusThe Constraint Isn’t Cyclical
Workforce capacity is now an enterprise operating constraint. The answer starts with Strategic Intent, 80/20 focus and productive capability.
Strategic Intent & FocusThe Next Acquisition Is Not the Growth Strategy
Acquisitions buy revenue, capacity and geography. Only a human-capital operating system converts them into organizational capacity — and into EBITDA.
Strategic Intent & FocusThe Second Curve Begins Before the First Ends
The right moment to build what comes next is while the current business is still strong — which is precisely when no one feels the need to.
Strategic Intent & FocusFOCUS: Vital Few Constraints
FOCUS is not doing less. It is concentrating capital, talent and attention on the customers and products that produce the value — and removing the rest.
Strategic Intent & FocusThe CEO Lens: Designed to Carry the Next Stage
When strategy only reaches the work through the chief executive, growth adds volume to an unresolved design. The fix is structural, not personal.
Strategic Intent & FocusThe Exit Lens: Value That Transfers Without the Owner
Transferable value is documented processes, governed data, named successors and results that hold when the founder is not in the room.
Strategic Intent & FocusComplexity Is a Choice: Where 80/20 Strategy Really Begins
Front-to-back 80/20 begins outside-in — with customers and products — not with an internal process improvement program.
Strategic Intent & FocusYou've Built Something That Matters. Now Build a Business That Gives You Choices.
How intentional strategy, organizational design, and leadership can help founders build sustainable growth—and more choices about what comes next.
Strategic Intent & FocusThe Market Is Growing. Is Your Organization Ready for Its Next Growth Curve?
How leaders can secure the markets, people and capabilities growth requires—and integrate them into productive execution.
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The Compass Podcast
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- The Compass Podcast — Simplify, Lead & Grow
- Chad Ritterbusch, TRG Marketing
- Kristina George, Next Step Insurance
- Ken Vandervest, Lisbon Creek Systems
- Max Meinerz, Ascendent Health Partners
- Mike Domitrz, The Center for Respect
- Dwayne Marks, Black Orchid Research
- Megan Doberstein, Ignite MedTech
- Tim Gerritsen, Lost Boys Interactive
- Jen Swendseid, Heart&Core Sports and Medical
- Bryan Jorgensen, Tanduo Technical Partners
- Aymen Azim, Technova Industries
- Matt Guse, MRS Machining
- David Twite, MacDonald & Owen Lumber
- Mandi Lococo, Gramoll & Associates (American Family Insurance)
Executive Forums
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- Executive Forums — Five Rooms, One Community
- The Compass CEO Roundtable
- The Compass CHRO & People Leader Forum
- The Mental Fitness Lab
- How Forum Membership Works — Purpose, Process, Day One
- Owner, CEO & President Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- COO & Operations Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- CFO & Enterprise Finance Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- CHRO & People Executive Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- Growth, Commercial & Technology Forum | Compass Executive Forums
Mental Fitness & Growth Lab
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Compass Architecture
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- How Compass Works — The Core Architecture, One Page Each
- FOUNDATION™: Purpose, Values, Present Reality
- SIMPLIFY™: Concentrate Value, Remove Complexity
- LEAD™: Strategy, Cadence, Accountability
- GROW™: Design the Next Curve of Value
- ARC™: Assess, Refine, Commit
- Our Approach — Compass Enterprise Architecture
- The Architecture in Depth — Compass Enterprise Architecture
- The Compass Enterprise Architecture™ — One Operating Model
- Where the Compass method comes from · Methodology lineage
- Front to Back 80/20™ | Compass Value Stream
- Program & Project Management™ | Compass Value Stream
Offerings & ways to engage
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- Begin a Conversation
- How We Work — Engaging Compass Performance
- Offerings — How to Work with Compass
- Begin a Conversation — Two Paths In
- Exit Planning
- Executive & Leadership Advisory
- Workforce Architecture
- Operating Cadence Install — Plan, Measures, Actions, Meetings
- Delivery Architecture — Strategy to Daily Work
- Daily Practice Sheets
- Begin a Conversation
Who Compass works with
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Returns on the work
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- Confidence — What an installed architecture returns
- Freedom — What an installed architecture returns
- Scalability — What an installed architecture returns
- Succession — What an installed architecture returns
- Enterprise value — What an installed architecture returns
- Enduring leadership — What an installed architecture returns
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