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October 18, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

Middle Market Leaders: Disruptors on the Horizon?

East Greenwich, RI /Atlanta, GA – The Society for the Advancement of Consulting® (SAC) invited one of its distinguished global members, Gary W. Patterson; to comment on

“What disruptors are our clients experiencing and/or do we see on the horizon? What advice do we have for them?”

Keep Your head, while others lose theirs –

“Turbulence creates opportunities for strategic growth when you can be the disruptor and not the disrupted” notes Gary Patterson, the FiscalDoctor® author of Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth.

“To reach your goals of comprehensive preparedness, best practices and regulatory compliance, you must have accurate measurements that provide quantitative assessments. Those measurements can be used to answer a variety of critical questions:

Where does your organization really stand today?
What does your business need to improve?
How much progress are you making in various key strategic initiatives?Call to discuss your specify situation to have a great year at 678-319-4739. Find your million-dollar blind spot: before it finds you.
“Which of these questions will implementation help move you toward a super disruptor capability?”

October 11, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

Convert Blue Sky Strategy to Fiscal Vision for Your Organization

Which of these three questions can improve the value of your strategic plan?

• How can you improve the emphasis from crafting impressive-sounding mission statements, core values and new initiatives with scant consideration given to the company’s real financial position?
• What part of your strategic vision will benefit from a fiscal focus to allow your company to feel more comfortable that its risk strategy is realistic, prudent and even doable, rather than suddenly realizing too late that you have bet the farm for too little reward?
• Where might there be some truth to the adage that far too many financial projections show revenues starting one quarter earlier than will actually occur, and expenses starting one quarter later than will actually occur?

Learn more about my recommendations. Risk & Compliance, a member of Financier Worldwide just published my article “Change A Risky Blue-Sky Strategy Into A Fiscal Vision Worth Its Weight In Gold” http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/change-a-risky-blue-sky-strategy-into-a-fiscal-vision-worth-its-weight-in-gold

Financier Worldwide is a leading publisher of news and analysis on the global business and finance market place. With leading products such as the monthly print publication, Financier Worldwide Magazine, the organization has become recognized as a leading source of intelligence to the business and corporate advisory community. www.financierworldwide.com

They offer free subscriptions to qualified readers for publications on Corporate Disputes, Financier Worldwide and Risk & Compliance magazines. They are distributed globally from their United Kingdom publishing base.

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Consider discussing improving your sustainable profitable growth capabilities with the Gary Patterson. Clients call him their FiscalDoctor® and just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups. He also supports special projects for strategic growth diagnostics, risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, and strategic planning updates.

Call to discuss your situation at 678-319-4739 or send a note from https://fiscaldoctor.com/contact-us/

Find the Million Dollar Blind Spot; in time.

October 4, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

Interesting Franchise Expo Atlanta weekend

Just back from speaking on Avoid the Five Biggest Mistakes in Growing Your Franchise Business for The Franchise Expo organization. http://www.franchiseshowinfo.com/atlanta/

Finding Your “Million Dollar Blind Spot” Is One of the Most Powerful Ways to Grow Your Sustainable, Wealthier Bottom Line. Glad to help you or a colleague find your Million Dollar Blind Spot opportunity or risk before it finds you.

Pictures of my flier and coupon are inserted below. I was unprepared for the opportunity and did not take a picture with my smiling, happy audience. Even the FiscalDoctor sometimes misses fleeting opportunities.

Finding Your “Million Dollar Blind Spot” Is One of the Most Powerful Ways to Grow Your Sustainable, Wealthier Bottom Line — Finding Your “Million Dollar Blind Spot” Is One of the Most Powerful
Ways to Grow Your Sustainable, Wealthier Bottom Line

Please share the flier I prepared to supplement their coupon with your organization. I passionately love helping people avoid their major or Million Dollar Mistake. Sometimes a $5,000 mistake feels like a million dollars.

If you are unprepared when the opportunity shows up, you may not see it or be unable to seize the opportunity. If you are unprepared and the risk shows up, it can be very painful even deadly.

September 27, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

The Lost Art of Thinking in Large Organizations – vote to read

to read this strategic oriented article, which also has an orientation toward value based enterprise risk management. Interesting how things circle back to the basics.

Whatever insights strike you from the article with a link below, the key is that group think and paralysis by ………. (the newest and latest issue) always are in vogue.

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-lost-art-of-thinking-in-large-organizations/

My related version to this article is the suggestion that the corporate CFOs have left town without telling you, due to the immense pressures to look the other way on possible issues.

Why isn’t ERM more of a team sport at your organization? describes how effectively the former sheriffs who used to provide honest feedback about pros and cons of issue and potential risks have “left town” without telling you. Better understand how and why this occurs to reduce unfortunate surprises, which always seem to occur at the worst time. Http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/why-isnt-erm-more-of-a-team-sport-at-your-organisation

Several related articles I have written for other groups are available on my LinkedIn profile under posts at https://www.linkedin.com/in/garywpatterson

If you like what you see on LinkedIn, invite me to connect. or call me at 678-319-4739 to talk more.

September 14, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

Franchise Atlanta Expo – Free Ticket – Grow Bottom Line

Avoid the Five Biggest Mistakes in Growing Your Franchise Business

Finding Your “Million Dollar Blind Spot” Is One of the Most Powerful Ways to Grow Your Sustainable, Wealthier Bottom Line

In this Session you will:

Learn five crucial mistakes he consistently sees leaders miss to their peril.
Participate in a facilitated discussion on two of those 5 major mistakes.
Discover five common misconceptions – myths to throw overboard from your business.

Date: September 24-25, 2016

Time: 10:00am–4pm and 11am-4pm

Location: Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, GA 30339

The expo is providing speakers with a code (SEMINAR) to give you and friends for a free pass to the franchise expo on the 24th and 25th.

To reserve your spot, go to: www.franchiseshowinfo.com/atlanta

Find out how you can enhance sustainable growth and profitability.

Assess, Diagnose, Reach Your Vision and Achieve a True Path to Greater Profitability

www.atlantafranchiseexpo.com

Join the event and glad to share insights on how to avoid Million Dollar Mistakes in your business or organization. Regardless off how small or how large, these foundational best practices can help.

Attend my strategic overview workshop facilitated session. Increase the value of your franchise, franchisor, franchisee, business or organization value. We also will exhibit onsite. Come by or email ahead of time to set a time to briefly discuss your unique special situation. Glad to demystify the financial jargon for any non accountants.

Patterson flyer franchise expo

September 13, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

How does your score on basic personal financial concepts compare?

Trust that after reading this, you will soon feel the satisfaction of starting or finishing the day with a bigger smile.

Amazing how most of us (myself included) often fail to appreciate something which can be very complex to the normal public, once we demystify those foundational business principles.

See how you score on an extremely brief, self administered and self reporting basic test in the Market Watch article below. Then apply your thoughts on three issues.

How hard do you think this test really is?
What issues do low or failing scores on the test do you think this creates in life and business?
Why do you think this high failure rate occurs (and what can be done to improve understanding)?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-basic-financial-questions-that-surprisingly-stump-most-americans-2016-05-18?link=sfmw_tw

Really, really scary that the vast majority fails test! After you confidentially take the test, send it to some of your friends, who may then better understand why business is so underappreciated.

Then you may consider a gift. Glad to share some business financial concepts and articles, which I undoubtedly underappreciate my value to leaders in demystifying obscure financial statement concepts. Be assured I have recently been retrained to help others without using either the dreaded D(ebit) or C(redit) words.

If this strikes a chord for your life or business, creates a chuckle, or you want me to truthfully reveal my score, call me at 678-319-4739, post a comment below or send me a LinkedIn note on my profile at

www.linkedin.com/in/garywpatterson .

Or if you like several offerings a day, you can find my twitter posts at www.twitter.com/ermadvocate