Find Out What’s Really Stopping Your Company’s Growth — in 7–10 Days
A focused growth diagnostic for founder-led companies ready to scale from early revenue to $25M+ with clearer strategy, stronger systems, and better execution.
Including insights from over 40 years of experience scaling businesses to $100M+, with hundreds of billions in revenue generated to date.
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 toward
2. Attract and keep top senior staff
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
Find Your Growth Limiters and get a solutions roadmap in 1–2 Weeks for $1,200
Every business is different, but every business also needs most of the same things as they grow.
The image at right shows the stages of development that every company must go through. Each stage requires “gear shifts” in management and leadership style, structure, discipline, and systematization. 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.
Scaling without experienced guidance creates unnecessary risk, delay, and expensive mistakes. This Growth Diagnostic helps reveal hidden constraints before they become costly. It is a roadmap through the risks.
What You Get
CEO and senior team interviews
Growth-limiter diagnosis
15–20-page written report
Prioritized scaling roadmap
Optional implementation plan
Who This Is For” block:
Best for founder-led companies that are:
- Doing $1M–$25M in revenue
- Growing but feeling operational strain
- Struggling with execution, people, systems, or focus
- Preparing to scale, raise capital, or professionalize management
These are all done by Bob Norton personally.
So you get decades of strategic and operational success that knows what works.
This is not about smarts or intellect; it is about experience.
What you will get with our audit:
- 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.
- A 15-20-page written report listing the weaknesses in your business that will limit growth
- 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.
- 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.
Additional Items in the Paid Version:
A. Full recommendations of steps needed to work around or break through each identified limiter. This is a strategic roadmap that may take 3 to 6 months to execute.
B. Prioritization and ranking of potential ROI and payback for each correction
C. Access to one or two of our video library courses that are key to solving your problems (A $500+ value)
About Bob Norton, Serial Entrepreneur and Top Expert in Scaling Companies
- A founder of seven 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, like Thomson-Reuters, now generate tens of billions in annual sales
- 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.
- Author of four books: The Startup Manual & Leadership, co-written with Warren Bennis, “The Father of Leadership,” and 4 eBooks. And over 200 published articles and 360+ studio-produced training videos.
- Creator of The CEO & Boot Camp in 2004 and variations for teams and stages of development, which has graduated thousands of CEOs and entrepreneurs from over 40 countries.
Video Testimonials From Clients
These testimonials show the depth and breadth 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.
Past clients include companies like:
Are you ready to scale at 25%, 50%, or 100%+ CAGR?
Check out our guaranteed Platinum scaling program. All the leadership systems, training, and coaching to reach $25M, then $100M that even take the best companies 8 to 10 years to figure out (as per Jim Collins in Good To Great).
Call (619) SCALE06, (619) 722-5306 from 9am to 6pm CT.
Or Click Here to Schedule a Complimentary Scaling Assessment
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, Our Founder and CEO oversees all engagements
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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.