Go from chaos to clarity.
IMPLEMENT A SIMPLE, PROVEN FRAMEWORK
THAT GROWS YOUR PEOPLE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
YOUR BUSINESS.
Are you one leadership team away from extinction or greatness?
Are you:
● Concerned this recession means you’ll lose your competitive advantage?
● Involved with too many projects demanding all your time and attention?
● The only one making decisions and coming up with all the ideas?
● Frustrated — and even desperate — that you have to tell people how to do things over and over each day?
The gap between extinction and greatness isn’t as wide as you think. Build your business on a framework that delivers results so you can feel confident in your business again.
Nick Janus
Pinnacle Business Guide
I’ll climb with you
I have been involved in business for as long as I can remember. My father founded and ran the largest travel agency in Nevada, and I started working there at 15. My professional career spans more than 25 years. It started in public accounting with a small CPA firm in Portland, Oregon. From there I moved to a large regional public accounting firm where I became a Senior Manager in the audit practice supporting manufacturing and distribution companies in the middle market.
Post public accounting, I entered industry and have held finance positions in a large international company and have served as a vice president, chief financial officer, and chief executive officer in middle market manufacturing companies. It was in some of my recent positions that I learned the value of business operating systems. In my role as chief executive officer, my team and I implemented an operating system with great success. Getting to work with Pinnacle as a Guide is both an honor and a very exciting next step in my career.
I graduated from Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, have a post-baccalaureate certificate in accounting from Portland State University, and a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Washington, Foster School of Business.
I currently live in the small town of Blaine, Washington with my wife of nearly 30 years. We have raised two children who are off on their own. Outside of work, I enjoy golf, watching the English Premier League, and have become a novice birder since we moved to Blaine.
The Pinnacle Principle
People
Surrounding yourself with the right people is a necessity. To embark on this journey, you’ll need to carefully select your team. Pick people who will help raise you up, and remove people who slow you down. A unified team working toward a common goal will always get further than even the most motivated individual.
The Pinnacle Principle
Purpose
The climb to the top requires some serious thinking. You have to figure out what you’re really all about, and what makes you different. How do you stand out from the crowd? What are you bringing to the table that nobody else can provide? What story are you telling with your work? This insight will help to develop the strategy you need for the journey.
The Pinnacle Principle
Playbook
“Just wing it” is bad advice when scaling a mountain, and it’s bad advice for business. Developing a clear-cut plan for everything you do will keep things running smoothly. Devise a strategy for business operations, meetings, and everything else you do, and keep it consistent.
The Pinnacle Principle
Performance
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.
The Pinnacle Principle
Profits
A great strategy builds momentum over time, continuing to get better, faster, and cheaper. With the right people, a clearly defined purpose, a detailed playbook, and consistent performance, profits are nearly inevitable. Sir Edmund Hillary once said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” (And as one of the first people to climb Mt. Everest, we think he’d know.)
The formula to success: the Pinnacle Principle
People + Purpose + Playbook + Performance = Profits
People
Surrounding yourself with the right people is a necessity. To embark on this journey, you’ll need to carefully select your team. Pick people who will help raise you up, and remove people who slow you down. A unified team working toward a common goal will always get further than even the most motivated individual.
Purpose
The climb to the top requires some serious thinking. You have to figure out what you’re really all about, and what makes you different. How do you stand out from the crowd? What are you bringing to the table that nobody else can provide? What story are you telling with your work? This insight will help to develop the strategy you need for the journey.
Playbook
“Just wing it” is bad advice when scaling a mountain, and it’s bad advice for business. Developing a clear-cut plan for everything you do will keep things running smoothly. Devise a strategy for business operations, meetings, and everything else you do, and keep it consistent.
Performance
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.
Profits
Emerge from this recession even stronger than before.
Gain control
Grow leaders who grow companies.
Simplify your business
Implement a proven, profitable framework to scale up your people, processes and profits.
Be confident
Move your business upward with more clarity and confidence in your future.
The Journey Before Us
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Start Your climb
Your journey to the summit requires patience and an ability to play the long game. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. You’ll need to keep your goals in mind and focus on putting your best foot forward every step of the way.
Pinnacle:
Five Principles that Take Your Business to the Top of the Mountain
– Steve Preda and Greg Cleary
Do you own a small business with more than a handful of employees? Are you frustrated that your organization has flatlined? Do you feel drained by working long hours and only dreaming of having an energized team ready to step up and lead? Do you nurse an ambition to scale your business into one that dominates its niche? Are you concerned that time is running out and you may never fulfill your dreams?
There is a system that enables you, the entrepreneurial risk-taker, to acquire the business skills and structure you need to play bigger and dramatically grow your privately held business, without getting an MBA. Welcome to the Pinnacle journey!
We have created a formula that is applicable for any company, while still being customizable for your business. We believe that there are five things you need to obsess about as an entrepreneurial leader. These are: People, Purpose, Playbooks, Perform and Profit.
We have broken these principles down to fifteen practices that help you clarify and implement the five Pinnacle Principles in your business. Dive in to learn what these are and how they can make your company unstoppable.
Nick Janus
(360) 656-5846
Nick@Ashbury-Consulting.com
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