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Happy Holidays, a Gift and To add golden value for you on my emails next year

Asking for your advice, insight and recommendations to make my emails even more valuable to you.

Sometimes getting customer feedback is as simple as asking for brief advice on any of the following:

1. What would you like me to do more of in these emails?

2. What would you like me to do less of in these emails?

3. What would you like me to call you about?

4. Who would benefit from my talking to: either them or me?

5. When would you like this to arrive?

6. How many times a month would you like information?

7. Where would you see more value in your business if something changed in these emails?

8. Why would you share one of these messages?

9. Which topic did you most enjoy in the last year?

10. Your thoughts on _________

My publisher gave me a link to give away from my last book. http://books.noisetrade.com/garywpatterson/million-dollar-blind-spots-book

You can always email me at [email protected] www.FiscalDoctor.com 678-319-4739

Looking forward to helping you, Gary
Gary Patterson
FiscalDoctor, Inc.
[email protected]
(678) 319-4739

Key member of 2 successful Inc. 500 international Companies always ready to help you next.

Helps leaders increase profitability providing access to 100 insider ways to unlock cashflow often better and cheaper than incumbents. Gary can be reached at 678-319-4739 or [email protected].

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Reputational & financial risk when, not IF, you have cyber disruption(s)

October 27, 2017 – Alpharetta and Atlanta, Georgia – Strategic enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson, FiscalDoctor®, will attend the Atlanta November 8th and 9th 2017 CyberHub Summit www.cyberhubsummit.com

He will meet confidentially with Middle Market and C-Suite leaders to confidentially aggregate and prioritize what attendees feel are key steps to reduce exposure to Cyber threats.

If you would like to participate in this discussion either at the conference or offline, consider the following three key steps:
1. Quantify your organizational cyber exposure TODAY on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is you know the word cyber and 10 is you can be on an experts’ panel,
2. Guesstimate your personal and reputational exposure WHEN, not IF, cyber embarrassment occurs at your organization, and
3. Research proactive step to reduce whatever exposure level your organization has.

Who should consider attending this event with applications for governance, compliance, risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM), business continuity, safety, crisis management and supply chain issues, inside a value based operational and strategic assessment framework? Family business, private and public business and equity group investor
• Corporate directors, key committee chairs and board chairs
• Corporate officers and C-suite executives
• Shareholders, stakeholders, regulators and legislators
• SMB, middle market and global 2000

For their risk management process to help meet financial and strategic goals, it is imperative for management to understand the magnitude of risks in pursuit of business objectives, and how the organization’s products and offerings and opportunities can be mapped to these risks. Just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups. He also supports special projects for business growth, risk assessments, value based enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, strategic planning updates, special board projects or requests and strategic growth diagnostics.

About CyberHub Summit
CyberHub Summit was established out of a desire to share knowledge and solutions of cybersecurity around the world. Cyber threats are real, and this summit is committed to be the main source of solutions for companies to protect their business and people. CyberHub Summit will provide its clients and attendees the highest level of integrity, customer service, knowledge and value.

CyberHub Summit is a proud woman owned and led organization. http://www.cyberhubsummit.com/overview

About Gary W. Patterson
Patterson, a Big 4 CPA / Stanford MBA, speaks regularly on business growth, accountability, facilitation, governance, risk management, achieving corporate financial goals, and building long-term wealth.

He can also help increase profitability providing access to 100 best of the best experts often better and cheaper than incumbents. Gary can be reached at 678-319-4739 or [email protected].

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Helping leaders when your organization sometimes feels like it is a best kept secret, coasting on past success, or just stuck, so you have nagging underperforming feelings?
Helping leaders when your organization sometimes feels like it is a best kept secret, coasting on past success, or just stuck, so you have nagging underperforming feelings?

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Amazon acquiring Whole Foods Black Swan Sanity Test

Directors and C Suite: Middle Market, Private & Family Business 5 Minute Self-Assessment

September 7, 2017 – Metro Atlanta, GA – Strategic enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson, FiscalDoctor®, asks this basic five-minute ERM assessment question. Was Amazon acquiring Whole Foods a black swan event, or considered by your organization?

Why is this a meaningful question? Google and Walmart seem to have anticipated something like this. Others are scrambling.

Unfortunately, many very large organizations seem to be describing events like the Whole Foods acquisition as a black swan situation. If you are partially or entirely in the scrambling category, what might be your Cost in Overlooking Easy to Find Million Dollar Blind Spots? ©

On that note, ask yourself, “Why bother to discover your blind spots?” Simply enough, consider the next step after finding your million dollar blind spots is to move to increase opportunities and revenues, and
decrease risks or costs.

Consider these 3 observations executive teams apply after discovering their blind spots, and how you can also apply them to your organization:
1. Major blind spots can both have good upsides and bad downsides
2. Some major blind spots are clearly unexpected and defensible.
3. Some are easy to see using hindsight, as the world is now prone to do.

Before you decide how to classify efforts to evaluate your organization’s abilities on this point, apply the following 3 questions to your ERM, contingency planning or strategic update processes:
1. When does the claim about blind spots become more of an excuse than a defensible statement?
2. What is the monetary risk threshold that must be crossed before anyone should care?
3. What is the impact, cost, and loss of recognition you will suffer from being in denial about your blind spots?

Simply stated, being on the watch for easily foreseeable, yet potentially material changes is why organizations have: risk management, business continuity, strategic planning, budgetary review processes, CAPEX, risk assessments, value based enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, strategic planning updates, special board projects or requests and strategic growth diagnostics.

If you aced this simple question, be proud and then look to exploit an opportunity on others asleep at the switch. If this acquisition surprised your business and this change could impact you in more than an anecdotal way:
• Which of your functions listed above are asleep at the switch?
• What else might they be missing?
• How quickly do you need to make some changes?

And of course, be truthful with yourself in answering these 3 questions to gain the greatest insight! Maybe worth a call to discuss 678-319-4739.

Patterson works with leaders to uncover million-dollar blind spots: before they find you — to make better business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders gain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting their exposure to risk.

As a part of their risk management process, it is imperative for management to understand the magnitude of risks in pursuit of their business objectives, and how the organization’s products and offerings and opportunities can be mapped to these risks. Just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups.

About Gary W. Patterson
Patterson, a Big 4 CPA / Stanford MBA, speaks regularly on strategic contingency planning, governance, risk management, achieving corporate financial goals, and building long-term wealth. His book Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth provides cutting edge follow-up for blind spots: how to identify them, exploit opportunities and mitigate risks. Visit his website at https://fiscaldoctor.com and “free” fiscal fitness test at https://fiscaldoctor.com/fiscal-quiz/ , or call 678-319-4739.

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Why risk management

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Business Growth Strategies

BusinessTown gave me the link below to share on my video .

In a world where you really don’t have all the money, people, and time you want, where should you look for either a blind spot to avoid or a place you can build on as a strength. I have five comments I’m going suggest today.

Know Where You Make Your Money

Know How to Spot Change

Know How to Plan for Change

Understand Opportunity Cost

Know When You Are Kidding Yourself

Normally when I do an interview, people ask me either what I am concerned about or what I am telling my clients at this time. So here are three things I’m going to suggest you consider. First, where might you be taking one of your key stakeholders for granted a little too long? Perhaps it’s an employee, a customer, the bank, your key people, your spouse, or a friend. Next, where is your cash going to be six months from now? And third, where is there a little itty-bitty 75-pound scrawny gorilla happily and contentedly growing up ignored until they’re going to become the 800-pound gorilla at the absolutely worst time possible? It’s pretty inexpensive to give yourself a very reasonable fiscal checkup to see where you need to diagnose or treat for wellness.

Business Growth Strategies with the Fiscal Doctor. Originally Appeared on BusinessTown

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Atlanta Business School Alliance for alumni of these schools

The ABSA is an alliance of Atlanta-area business school alumni clubs which work together to offer their members opportunities to network and learn about and discuss leading-edge business thinking and practices.

Members include:

School and websites

Booth School of Business University of Chicago www.chicagobooth.edu
Columbia Business School Columbia University www.gsb.columbia.edu
The Darden School Univ. of Virginia www.darden.edu
Fuqua School of Business Duke University www.fuqua.duke.edu
Goizueta Business School Emory www.bus.emory.edu
Graduate School of Business Stanford University www.gsb.stanford.edu/
Harvard Business School Harvard www.hbs-atlanta.org
INSEAD INSEAD www.insead.edu
Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell www.johnson.cornell.edu
Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University www.kellogg.northwestern.edu
Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/
London Business School University of London www.london.edu
Robinson College of Business Georgia State University robinson.gsu.edu
Ross School of Business University of Michigan www.bus.umich.edu
Scheller College of Business Georgia Tech https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/
Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology mitsloan.mit.edu/
Stern School Of Business New York University www.stern.nyu.edu
Tuck School of Business Dartmouth www.tuck.edu
Wharton School Univ. of Pennsylvania www.wharton.penn.edu
Yale School of Management Yale mba.yale.edu/

http://atlantabsa.com/

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Directors and C Suite of Middle Market, Private & Family Business

Strategic Profitable Growth Expert Gary W. Patterson Will Attend National Association of Corporate Directors Board Global Board Leaders’ Summit 2017

Strategic enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson, FiscalDoctor®, will attend the NACD Global Board Leaders’ Summit 2017 hosted by the National Association of Corporate Directors focused on – Risk, Compensation, Nominating and Governance, Future Trends, Social Media & Technology, Global, Audit and Regulatory, Private Company, and Small-Cap Company.

Who will be there?
• Corporate directors, key committee chairs and board chairs
• Corporate officers and C-suite executives
• Shareholders, stakeholders, regulators and legislators
• SMB, middle market and global 2000

Patterson works with leaders to uncover million dollar blind spots: before they find you — to make better business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders gain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting their exposure to risk.

As a part of their risk management process, it is imperative for management to understand the magnitude of risks in pursuit of their business objectives, and how the organization’s products and offerings and opportunities can be mapped to these risks. Just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups.

He also supports special projects for business growth, risk assessments, value based enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, strategic planning updates, special board projects or requests and strategic growth diagnostics.

About Gary W. Patterson
Patterson, a Big 4 CPA / Stanford MBA, speaks regularly on strategic contingency planning, governance, risk management, achieving corporate financial goals, and building long-term wealth. His book Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth provides cutting edge follow-up for blind spots: how to identify them, exploit opportunities and mitigate risks. Visit his website at https://fiscaldoctor.com and “free” fiscal fitness test at https://fiscaldoctor.com/fiscal-quiz/ , or call 678-319-4739.

Enabling growth through leverage you did not know you had.
Enabling growth through leverage you did not know you had.

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