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We Will Reveal Any Company’s Growth Limiters

Running a Business is Easy
Growing a Business is Very Hard

This is because to grow, you must either take market share from others or create new markets.

Simply put, you must do hundreds of things well to grow a business, including:
1. Have a strong strategic plan with a long-term (3-5 years) vision to build towards

2. Attract and keep top people in your senior staff and employees
3. Develop excellence in execution, operations, and customer service  (process and systemization)
4. Find strong product-market fit, marketing, messaging and branding
5.  Select the best markets and customers for you to target and expand into more markets

Often, companies take many years to figure these things out, if they ever do. Jim Collins, author of Good To Great, says it takes 7–8 years for companies to get their systems right before scaling. We help companies do that in one year by dropping in prebuilt systems. This is why only 1 in 400 companies ever reaches even $10M in sales. And only 1 in 6,300 reach $100M, as our founder did with two startups in a row. 
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Scaling accompany requires mastering all these things with a disciplined management team

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These testimonials show the depth and breath of our experience helping companies of all sizes get to their next level of development, no matter what they need. We take 7-figure companies to 8-figures, and 8-figure companies to 9-figures.

We Can Find Your Growth Limiters in 1-2 Weeks

for a Nominal Fee of $1,200

Every business is different, but every business also needs most of the same things as they grow.

The image shows the stages of development that every company must go through. Each stage requires “gear shifts” in management and leadership style, structure, discipline, and systemization. Each stage has a long checklist of things to get right.

Most new CEOs and entrepreneurs fail to evolve, reach their limit without a mentor, and do not recognize that “What got you here will not get you to that next level.” 

So if you want to reach $10M, $50M, or $100M, you have no choice but to get help from someone who has done that before. Would you read a book about flying and hop in an airplane alone? Nope. Likely you would die. 

5 Stages of Developemt Model showing a metaphor by boat size from speed boat the aircraft carrier
A company's culture and management style must change at each of the five stages shown above. This "shifting of gears" is why most founders are replaced by "professional managers". We help everyone on the team make these four transitions.

This is not about smarts or intellect; it is about experience. What you will get with our audit:

  1. We will interview the CEO and each of your top managers for up to 60 minutes each to get 360-degree perspectives and a view of the business from each department or area.
  2.  A 15-20 page written report listing the weaknesses in your business that limit growth
  3.  A written plan to address each issue in the appropriate order to uplevel your company, team, plans, and ability to execute well. You will have an independent evaluation of each major factor in growth. 
  4.  A proposal on how we can help you get to that “next level,” adding tens of millions in revenue and optimizing your business better for smooth and predictable growth. Of course, this is optional with no obligation. If you desire, we will help implement everything needed to get you growing smoothly and sustainably.

About Bob Norton, Serial Entrepreneur and Top Expert in Scaling Companies

  • A founder of six companies, with four exits and two still in development.
  • As a CEO since 1989, Bob has grown two startups to $100M and $156M in sales within five years each and returned over $1 billion in profits to his investors (a 25X ROI). An average of $71 million per year of equity value was created
  • Creator of AirTight Management, world’s first modular and most comprehensive Management Operating System (MOS)
  • His companies have generated tens of billions in sales and continue to generate over $1 billion per year today in revenue
  • As a management consultant and chief adviser to CEOs since 2002, he has helped over 200 clients increase their growth rates, sales, and company valuations.
  • He has raised over $40 million in startup capital for his own companies and helped clients raise nearly $1 billion. Helped clients exit at values as high as $780M. 
  • Founded six companies, four of which have disrupted industries. Two others are still growing. 
  • Author of four books: The Startup Manual & Leadership, co-written with Warren Bennis, “The Father of Leadership,” and 4 eBooks. 
  • Over 200 published articles and 360+ studio-produced training videos.
  • Creator of The CEO & Boot Camp and variations for teams and stages of development, which has graduated thousands of CEOs and entrepreneurs from over 40 countries. 
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WHAT IS AIRTIGHT MANAGEMENT?

AirTight Management is the world’s most comprehensive Leadership Operating System (LO/S) developed over two decades curating the best systems for scaling.

And of course, to grow, you need capital and a quality team. You can build a tiny house alone, but to build a skyscraper, you’ll need lots of help.

We take what is normally an 8-to-10-year process and compress it down to about a year for most companies by installing standard systems, processes, and culture for everything needed to scale. Then customizing as needed. 

There is no one, ever, that did not need help to figure all this out! The first 10 years of Elon Musk’s learning at Zip2 (1999) and PayPal (2002) working with others gave him that experience. 
Google hired many senior, experienced people, as did almost every other major success. 
Get the help you need. Do not try to climb Mount Everest without a sherpa. They all die.
Get a FREE strategy session to diagnose your business. Get a mini-growth audit to understand what is holding your company back.

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We have over 600 video modules to turbocharge any business and develop their management team to scale faster and more smoothly

Are you ready to scale at 25%. 50% or 100%+ CAGR? Get a scaling audit today. We will identify all the limiters to your growth and how to fix them.

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Running a business is easy!
Growing a business is not!

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Or Call (619) SCALE06, (619) 722-5306 from 9am to 6pm CT.

This is not a sales call but an assessment of your company’s ability to scale and eligibility for our $10 million guarantee. In any event, we will guide you towards greater success. We will study your website and other materials in advance.

Bob Norton, CEO and Creator of AirTight Management and The CEO Boot Camp
Bob Norton, Our Founder and CEO oversees all engagements. Mr. Norton founded and sold four companies for over $1 billion total, returning a 25X ROI to investors. He has helped hundreds of companies as a trusted adviser, fractional CEO/COO and Board of Director member. He also created The CEO Boot Camp and has trained thousands of CEOs from over 45 countries.

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