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The CEO and Entrepreneur Boot Camp: The Art & Science of Business Design - executive training seminar.
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Learn A
Comprehensive System to Develop a Raw Idea, or Startup
Company, into a $100 Million Business From Someone Who Has
Done it Twice
This Management Seminar is a Comprehensive
and Practical Executive Training Program in Entrepreneurship.
You Will Learn An Integrated System For Starting and Running High Growth Businesses Developed Over the
Last 15 years By A Successful CEO and Serial Entrepreneur.
Bob Norton, the developer of this program, and
author of four books on entrepreneurship, has grown two businesses
from
$0 to over $100 million in sales and also generated over $1
Billion in shareholder value. This comprehensive senior
management training is available nowhere
else.
This strategic level management training and entrepreneurship
boot camp will turn entrepreneurs into more successful CEOs
and raise the performance and success levels of any CEO, or
senior executive, to a world-class level. Over a dozen systems
will be taught at this management training seminar, crossing
all the major business disciplines including sales, marketing,
finance, operations and product development. Systems and tools are also
taught for strategy, hiring, management, employee development,
risk management and corporate vision development.
These entrepreneurship systems are the "best of
the best" distilled down from 23 years experience and over
1,000 business books and integrated into a system and
philosophy that can grow any business into a $100 million
entity more quickly and
smoothly...
CURRENTLY SCHEDULED BOOT CAMPS June 23rd and 24th 2005 in
Atlanta, Georgia Chicago, Illinois and Orlando,
Florida coming soon.
Call (508) 381-1450 for all dates and details.
100% of past
graduates have said what they learned would significantly improve their business within the next couple of
months!
The Entire Seminar Group
Testimonial Who thinks they got their
money's worth attending the Entrepreneur & CEO boot
camp?
You should get an ROI of over 100
times your investment within a year of attending!
<-- Click The Play Button For a
Testimonial on the Boot
Camp
Dear
CEO, Entrepreneur or Senior Executive,
Imagine if a very successful
serial entrepreneur, who had grown two companies to over $100
million in sales, had worked for 16 months to painstakingly
document the most important business model, systems, ideas and
lessons he had learned during his 23 year career.
What if he had also collected ideas
from over 1,000 business books read over 15 years while he was
a CEO?
Imagine the impact such
knowledge could have on your business and your career. Well,
we have just the entrepreneurship management training seminar
for you. The Art and Science of Business Design
incorporates everything I wish I had known when I founded
my first business in 1989.
During my career, I have been
intricately involved in entrepreneurship and the success of
two multi-billion dollar corporations and eight startups, and
I've learned lots of hard lessons along the way, too.
At one point, I was creating and
launching a new product and business each year and achieving
eleven times the industry average productivity in product
development.
When CEOs and entrepreneurs take
on the responsibility of running an entire business, they need
to know how to design, plan and manage each of the enterprises
key disciplines: Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations and
Product Development. You must know how they interact and
compete. You need to know how to recruit, hire, motivate and
manage the best people in each discipline. You must also know
how to get people and departments to work together, so that
everybody is on the same page strategically.
When I
first became a CEO, I began reading four, five and even six business
books a month. I subscribed to books on tape. I attended
management trainings, executive trainings and seminars of all
kinds – to say nothing of workshops, boot camps and other
executive forums. However, I never found a good
entrepreneurship training program of any kind.
And then I began to notice
something. All these trainers and authors were experts
in only a single discipline. They could never tie everything
together in a framework that would promote success and growth
across the entire organization. In any real-world
business, all these disciplines are tightly interconnected.
Yet very few people have had the broad scope of
responsibilities to understand them all and integrate them
effectively, never mind high-growth experience in all size
businesses, from startup to to multi-billion operations. This
can only be gained after many years experience as an operating
CEO!
With that unique perspective I
knew I had to create a new kind of CEO and Entrepreneurship
Boot Camp– The Art and Science of Business Design. The
framework we have designed draws on everything I have learned
over the course of my 23-year career as a VP, CTO and
CEO. You will learn a comprehensive
system for designing, developing, improving and running
businesses, spanning the high level of all the major business
disciplines.
Even though I already had
many years of business experience in senior management roles,
nothing ever fully prepares you for stepping into the role of
CEO. If you are a CEO, GM or COO, or are close to launching a
company of your own, you really can't afford to miss this
unique event.
We firmly believe that
attending this seminar will allow you to save, or make, at
least an extra $100,000 for your company in the following
year. Enrollment is limited, so I urge you to register
now. I hope to see you
there!
P.S. If you are still on the
fence, feel free to call me at my direct line: (508) 381-1450
to discuss what you can learn by attending, or what we can do
to help groom your best executives for world-class
performance. We only want to accept people who are ready and
can really benefit from this advanced level training.
"It's a great course - very
comprehensive. I think it can really help people look at their
business in a new way. I can tell you it gave me new vision. He
teaches practical lessons people can actually apply."
This senior management
training seminar is designed for CEOs, senior executives and
entrepreneurs who wish to broaden their
experience and skills in business by learning a practical framework,
with superior methods and approaches to designing and running
businesses for high growth and profit. This could be called
just a "CEO Boot Camp," but the ones we have seen are so much less,
because they are mainly anecdotal, not a complete framework for
success. This is a complete system that teaches you how to
design and manage departments for all the major business
disciplines.
The Art and Science of
Business DesignTM is
strategic and high level, so you will learn to design departments,
and to set up and manage these business functions successfully. It
is the 20,000 foot view for running your business that will allow
you to architect and improve your business model and performance. You
will be taught to use 12 different entrepreneurial business design
tools that will improve any size business, and many
shortcuts that will save you hundreds of thousands of
dollars. This is not just a list of
things you need to learn or do, but a series of proven models,
methods and systems compiled from decades of experience, plus the
best ideas from over 1,000 business books. Mr. Norton spent
16 months documenting these systems and they are only available
here.
This executive level
management seminar is an investment in your abilities and skills
that will last a lifetime and can literally generate millions in
extra profits for you and/or your company. If you are a CEO, or want to be a CEO, or a General
Manager, of a significant business, or if you are thinking of
launching a company, we believe this will be the best investment you
ever make. You will learn practical "How To" techniques that
will build any business faster and more profitably. This
executive management training seminar will also help you design,
launch and improve any new products or businesses by broadening your
executive skills and becoming more fluent in the business areas you
are not expert in today.
Bob is one of those
rare people who can rub two sticks together and create a
company.
– Senior Partner, Charles River Ventures
"I thought this seminar was appropriate
for any senior level executive to get on the same page
strategically with their team and boost their business. I feel
I greatly underpaid for the value delivered."
–
John Edmond, President
Angel Data
Networks <-- Click
The Play Button For a Testimonial on the Boot
Camp
Most people
will NEVER
figure this all out for themselves –EVER– even with
10 years in a rapid growth CEO position. This system
contains the combined wisdom of some of the top thought leaders
in business over the last two decades. What I have done is
combine and integrate these ideas into a framework that can work
in any size business.
Here are just some of the management and
entrepreneurship models, tools and systems you will learn:
Designing and positioning a business for sustainable
competitive advantage
Optimizing your business model for minimum risk and capital
investment
Figuring out the exact skills you need and selecting your
management team and other employees and interviewing for skills
you do not have yourself. Most businesses require 20 skill sets to
be really successful on a large scale. You will learn these and
how to figure out which you have and which you don't.
Raising capital in any market from the best
sources (angels, VCs, banks, alternative sources)
Developing a marketing, communications and messaging plan
and department that is accountable to a return on
investment
Designing and positioning your brand with a
step-by-step system to develop your brand, brand personality and
USP that will make your growth faster
Developing and validating a better vision and business plan
that works in the real world and attracts and excites investors,
employees and customers
Planning, designing and managing a sales department and
selecting strategies, tactics and channels that will work for your
business
Hiring
the best people in every area and understanding the personality
types that work best in each discipline
Designing a "Dashboard" for running your business that will
give you more distant vision and focus employees on key
objectives
The list of 11 things a CEO should never, ever do
that most CEOs do not know
The strategies you can use to grow ANY business to
over $100 million in revenue
And much more . . .
"In building First
Call Corporation, Bob Norton, was my secret weapon in getting
a really audacious job done not only on time and under budget,
but done so well that it revolutionized how equity sales was
done on Wall Street. His abilities to understand complex
requirements, to synthesize elegant solutions, and then to
manage a team to get it done, are still the best I've ever
seen."
– Jim Rutt, ex-CEO Network Solutions, The Internet
Registration Company
"Way to go!
No question about value
delivered."
– Charlie Atkinson, Founder
Whole Systems
<-- Click The Play Button For a
Testimonial on the Boot
Camp
You will learn how to
define and select a management team that can be
successful. This seminar will broaden
any senior executive's business knowledge, far beyond their typical
day-to-day specialty and their past career track, to prepare them
to move up, or run any organization.
The Art and Science of
Business Design is the only senior management and entrepreneurship
training we're aware of that will give you a complete roadmap to becoming a
world-class executive and/or CEO. Only experienced
managers and entrepreneurs will be admitted, as this is an advanced,
content – packed and fast moving course designed for people who
already have management experience. You will also do workshops
actually designing businesses with guidance and help from
experts.
Executives in larger
organizations will learn to inject intrapreneurial spirit into their
organizations and improve results. All
sessions are taught by experts who have "done it before."
Robert Norton, founder of C-Level Enterprises,will teach most
sessions in their entirety with several other expert guest speakers.
Mr. Norton is a serial entrepreneur who has launched over 32
products and eight businesses successfully, as well as learned how
to avoid many business missteps through a systematic business design
approach he developed over the last 15 years.
Past Attendee Testimonial:
"The boot camp gave me all the information I needed to fill
in the blanks as I develop my new company. Even though I
sold a large Inc. 500 company before, this gave me the
models I needed to just drop things into place and greatly
improve and speed up my business development process."
– Susan Chandler-Duquette, CEO DEI Business Consulting
The wisdom of close to
1,000 business books is distilled down to the best ideas that work
together in an integrated system. This
is a highly pragmatic "How To" course that will give you a framework
and all the tools you need to start and run a business. This is not
just a seminar consisting of many industry luminaries, panels and
CEOs waxing poetic on their past successes, or spinning entertaining
anecdotes. These are valuable and fun too, but they do not
present a unified and integrated framework for starting and running
a business. This structured framework can be used to evaluate,
design, improve and launch businesses in any
industry. Typically these lessons are not taught, but learned
through long, hard and expensive experience.
What else is included:
A 300+ page manual with
all the slides, tools, diagrams and articlesA FREE bonus one hour
consulting with Bob Norton at our offices or by phone using the
business design tools to improve your business
A CD-ROM with the
business design tools, instructions and key articles
Breakfast, lunch and
snacks
"Master of Business Acceleration" graduation certificate
(suitable for framing)
Networking opportunity with other CEOs and
entrepreneurs
Your own personal company
$1 million action plan, developed with others help throughout the
seminar
Free parking
"You can either be taught by someone who has done it already, or
you can try to reinvent the wheel over many years.
Don't miss this boot camp, as that mistake will definitely cost
you millions in extra sales and mistakes over the coming years!"
Several experts
have told us we should be charging "at least $5,000" for this
event and one even said $25,000 because of the huge value
provided and the leverage of using this information. We
wanted to make it more affordable than that, so anyone who is
serious can afford to attend.
This Complete
Entrepreneurship System Is Not Available Anywhere Else!
Investment:
A
$500 refundable deposit* will hold your seat until 30 days before
the event. Regular Registration: $2,195
Early Registration: $1,895
(Paid in full at
least 30 days before the event)
Special Rate for two people
registering together: $1,795 each
Third Person, Non-Profit Executive Director or MBA
Student: $1,495
- Three years management experience required for ALL attendees.
- Cruise fee
is extra at group discount rate; call for details
"Don't Miss Out! We Promise This Will Be The Best,
Most Valuable Seminar You Ever Attend, Because The Leverage In
Improving Your Business Will Return 10, 20 Or Even 100 Times
Your Investment In Both Additional Revenue and Cost Savings."
Four Easy Ways to
Register:
Online - Click "Reserve
My Seat"
button above to register online and pay by credit card on
our secure payment site.
By Phone
- Call (508) 381-1450, 9am to 9pm EST
FAX
- Download the
registration form and FAX
it to (801) 672-9640.
Fill in the date you want and price on top to reserve
your seat at that event.
Mail
- Download
registration form and mail with
your payment or deposit.
So if
you have read all this and are not totally convinced that this CEO & Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
will greatly improve your chances of growing a business
DRAMATICALLY, AND that this event
worth many times the price, then you may not be the kind of
person who could benefit from this seminar. So thanks for
stopping by and we wish you the best of luck in all your
endeavors! If you know any entrepreneurs and CEOs who could
use this training please send them a link to this page by copying
and pasting it into an email. They will thank you for this
later.
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