This guide is a collection of growth strategies that we have planned and implemented with our clients over the past 25 years. Your strategy selection should be based on the set measurable objectives to be achieved. The strategies can be relevant for any organization at any stage of growth.

A major challenge of sales and networking is achieving the balance of being involved with the process and then taking the time to follow up on leads. Once you gather leads, you need a system that will help you regularly respond to them.

Private and public leadership must organize and collaborate to successfully turnaround a neighborhood. Together, they must be facilitated to lead through the complexities of transforming each neighborhood within a city, especially to the point that most cities need to be transformed.

Since the reorganization, the Daman Products Creative Team has launched a variety of new products that have significantly increased their sales. In fact, they have far surpassed their initial goals, with new product revenue of $4 million and counting.

Communities and their organizations are living, breathing and changing at all times. People and technology are the most unpredictable forces; both driving the sense of urgency to evolve and to think and do work differently and at faster rates of speed.

We must bring back the practice of Intentional Invention at all costs. Intentional Invention is the single most courageous and fearless act that people in our organizations, communities and country can make to revive our roots and flourish to compete and thrive again.

Recently we came to understand “Placemaking” and how it is the process by which we have been engaging in the completion of community projects. In recent years, we have completed several private-public projects that have involved community input and engagement during the stages of conceptualization, planning, design, investment, construction, development, and evaluation to assure that spaces fully engage their constituents.

Michael Hicks, the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, posted an article titled, A not-so-quiet revolution in economic development. In this, he states how many Indiana economic development practices in the past 50 years have been sad efforts of "romancing the smokestack."