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Growth Consulting

Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Consulting Model provides specific tools and expertise to support clients through all five phases of the growth cycle: From developing a pipeline of growth opportunities to evaluating and prioritizing those opportuniti
The World’s Fastest Shoe Shine

On a recent trip to the Midwest I saw something at the airport that I had seen a thousand times but had never noticed before. Passing by the shoeshine kiosk, I looked at the board, which listed all the different types of shoe shines that were availab
The Five Basic Truths of Fear

A group of Stanford psychology students were researching the nature of fear. They wanted to build a system that could dismantle any fear. They brought a group of skydiving instructors together and asked about people's first experience in jumping out
Why is a bad idea a good idea?

The only way to scale a business is through innovation. For example, if your business is digging ditches and all you know are shovels then innovation to you is only going to look like buying larger and larger shovels. We are all limited by our own t
Determination or Surrender

Determination is the dogged pursuit of what we most desire for ourselves. It is the never-say-die attitude of feverishly chasing our goals and vision. In determination we are unwilling to bend to discouragement or setbacks. We do not give up until we

We do a whole lot of thinking